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TEDTalks as of 06.16.11

179 points| robg | 15 years ago |spreadsheets.google.com | reply

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[+] ecaron|15 years ago|reply
It is still really disappointing that TED never released the Sarah Silverman talk (http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/15/the-ted-v-sarah-silverman-f...). Isn't it their purpose to expose the ideas, and ours to contemplate them?
[+] newhouseb|15 years ago|reply
Yeah but TED talks are _heavily_ edited from how they appear live on stage. TED puts an insane amount of effort into making the talks appear fluid and this is subconsciously I think partly why TED has been successful (everyone seems inhumanely perfect and articulate). If a TED talk bombs, it can be tricky to edit it into a coherent whole - I can imagine this is doubly hard with a comedian because timing is so important.

Source: I bombed a TED talk at TED 2011 in long beach. But I'm only 22 so hopefully I'll have a chance to do it again right in the future :)

[+] dasht|15 years ago|reply
Their handling of that whole thing was, for me, the breaking point when I could no longer give them benefit of the doubt or any longer take them seriously.
[+] hs|15 years ago|reply
for you who don't have flash and don't feel like clicking to download, you can download an xml format file from http://metated.petarmaric.com/metalinks/TED-talks-grouped-by...

then we can script to extract the xml file get the ted videos, like:

wget -c -O "1984/Nicholas Negroponte in 1984 makes 5 predictions.mp4" http://www.ted.com/talks/download/video/4837/talk/230 wget -c -O "1990/Frank Gehry as a young rebel.mp4" http://www.ted.com/talks/download/video/4047/talk/231 wget -c -O "1998/Aimee Mullins on running.mp4" http://www.ted.com/talks/download/video/5996/talk/443

...

wget -c -O "2011/Wadah Khanfar - A historic moment in the Arab world.mp4" http://www.ted.com/talks/download/video/11071/talk/1084 wget -c -O "2011/Wael Ghonim - Inside the Egyptian revolution.mp4" http://www.ted.com/talks/download/video/11086/talk/1086

[+] younata|15 years ago|reply
I wrote a script to do that for you. [1] (and am having my server download the first fifty listed in the xml file). I'd like to point out that there's a little bit under a thousand talks, so I highly recommend you only download a few videos at a time. (each video is about 40 mebibytes. [2] Roughly 40 gigs of video.)

[1] http://pastebin.com/RXzTpbGt

[2] Average obtained by downloading 50 videos, and averaging those.

Edit: fixed bug in script.

[+] spoiledtechie|15 years ago|reply
Love this spread sheet!!! Who ever built, keep it up! There is just something so simple as a spreadsheet instead of tons of useless graphics especially when you already know and love the product.
[+] lpolovets|15 years ago|reply
It's low on the list, but my favorite is:

Ric Elias: 3 things I learned while my plane crashed (http://www.ted.com/talks/ric_elias.html)

"Ric Elias had a front-row seat on Flight 1549, the plane that crash-landed in the Hudson River in New York in January 2009. What went through his mind as the doomed plane went down? At TED, he tells his story publicly for the first time."

[+] maeon3|15 years ago|reply
"Don't argue about things that don't matter with the people that matter". Powerful words there.
[+] makeramen|15 years ago|reply
Love TED talks for the amount of information that is freely available to anyone with an internet connection. Alot of it isn't terribly useful, but just knowing what kind of amazing things the top minds in the world are thinking about and working on is a great way to remind ourselves what is really going on in the rest of the world outside of our current social bubbles.
[+] tnorthcutt|15 years ago|reply
TED talks sorted by "engagement": http://goo.gl/zFAp7
[+] rmk|15 years ago|reply
This spreadsheet is gone. Google says its might have been deleted by the owner.
[+] philjr|15 years ago|reply
I just knew someone else would have done this when I looked at the original story, that was the first thing I thought was missing - some context as to which ones are popular. Awesome!
[+] weinzierl|15 years ago|reply
My friends love TED Talks and I thought I share the spreadsheet on Facebook. I was surprised that Facebook considers the link spammy and would not let me.
[+] exch|15 years ago|reply
Chrome also does not allow me to bookmark it in any way.
[+] andreyf|15 years ago|reply
I love TED talks, but I'm not sure what to do with such a list without a sort-by-something...
[+] dlsspy|15 years ago|reply
Agreed, a download is most useful to me. I'd rather play with the data.
[+] lazylland|15 years ago|reply
Why is it so difficult to make a private copy of this spreadsheet ? There are no download links, or an easy way in Google Spreadsheet to copy a document via URL !?!!
[+] staktrace|15 years ago|reply
Awesome! My favourite of the ones I've watched so far is #97.
[+] jamesgagan|15 years ago|reply
i can't help but feel that ted is all about the elite talking down to the rest of us.