TED

I’m working on an idea that involves TED, and needless to say, I’m energized by it.  TED is a terrific web site (and may I say culture?) where they claim “ideas worth spreading” through 18 minute talks, videotaped and posted.  By the way, do you still videotape in the digital age?  I guess you would now say recorded.  Anyway — TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design.   Since one of the only A’s I got in college was in speech communication, this site literally and figuratively speaks to my nerdish need to listen to good if not great speeches.

And because I’ve also become a Wordpress geek, (translation: that means this site’s content is managed through Wordpress) I noticed today that they’ve enabled TED videos to be embedded (I would have thought this could be done a while ago, but I’ll go with it).   So…while I haven’t read Elizabeth Gilbert’s wildly popular book, I really enjoyed her talk.  Especially since I don’t have genius nor will become one, it’s a topic on which to stew.  I’ll likely re-post other talks here since if you visit the TED site, you may never leave as the menu is simply magnetizing.