Does anyone know of a way to keep synching all the TED videos as and when they are uploaded? My goal is to maintain a local copy on my machine so that I can view them whenever I like. Any downloaders that can do the job?
Miro
TEDTalks as of 06.16.11
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Re: TEDTalks as of 06.16.11
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I was in the audience at the time. It was awful. I'm glad comedians are trying to reclaim the term "retard" but I had no context for it and it just seemed inappropriate.
Interesting thought about reclaiming the word from where I sit. As a trained chef (baker), the verb "retard" is commonly used for its meaning of slowing something down. This is usually with bread making, especially sourdoughs. Yeast development can be retarded using colder environments to enable better flavor and texture. Honestly, I have a loaf of bread retarding in the refrigerator now, and I'll bake it in the morning.
Since I work often with bakers and baking companies (marketing), the word is used often and I've never once heard someone make a crack involving the word's derogatory usage. Yet, I know the word is not one considered acceptable to use to describe a person or one's actions. But how the word is used in my world obscured its obvious position as something ready to be reclaimed.
Re: TEDTalks as of 06.16.11
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I was in the audience at the time. It was awful. I'm glad comedians are trying to reclaim the term "retard" but I had no context for it and it just seemed inappropriate.
So shouldn't TED release the talk so we can all have the opportunity to come to the same conclusion?
Re: TEDTalks as of 06.16.11
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was in the audience at the time. It was awful. I'm glad comedians are trying to reclaim the term "retard" but I had no context for it and it just seemed inappropriate.
So shouldn't TED release the talk so we can all have the opportunity to come to the same conclusion?
Think of it from their point of view. They want to be known for brilliant talks, not crap ones. If it really was an awful talk, it devalues their brand to publish it.
Re: TEDTalks as of 06.16.11
#25It 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?
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 :)
Re: TEDTalks as of 06.16.11
#26Does anyone know of a way to keep synching all the TED videos as and when they are uploaded? My goal is to maintain a local copy on my machine so that I can view them whenever I like. Any downloaders that can do the job?
iTunes?
The itunes app has only 117 videos? Or are you mentioning some other method? While the http://metated.petarmaric.com/ link mentions a total of 936 downloads
Re: TEDTalks as of 06.16.11
#27I love TED talks, but I'm not sure what to do with such a list without a sort-by-something...
Agreed, a download is most useful to me. I'd rather play with the data.
Re: TEDTalks as of 06.16.11
#28My 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.
Re: TEDTalks as of 06.16.11
#29My 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.
Chrome also does not allow me to bookmark it in any way.
Re: TEDTalks as of 06.16.11
#30for 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"…
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.