TED.com – inspiration for everyone
I only subscribe to two podcasts and one of them is TED. Technology Entertainment Design conferences take place every year and videos of talks are now available online for free. Apart from having an awesome website design, the speakers are what makes TED worth paying attention to.
People who have given talks include Al Gore, Richard Branson, Philippe Starck, Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia), J.J. Abrams (Lost, Cloverfield), Bill Clinton, Jeff Bezos (Amazon.com), Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion), Steven Levitt (Freakonomics), Sergey Brin and Larry Page, amongst others. The list alone tells its own story!
Some of the best talks are those where the speaker doesn’t talk directly about what they do, but about something entertaining but enlightening. Malcolm Gladwell’s (Tipping Point, Blink) talk is particularly good, for example. If you’ve ever got a spare twenty minutes or are looking for something interesting to watch, then TED.com has an endless amount of inspiration.
About the author
Philip Morton is a user experience consultant at Foolproof in London. He's also the Editor of Thunderbolt, which he has been running since 2000.
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