TED talks sorted by "engagement": http://goo.gl/zFAp7
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TEDTalks as of 06.16.11
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Re: TEDTalks as of 06.16.11
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 importa…
Ah, I saw this talk from a live stream! Really felt your pain but I think the audience was sympathetic. I took it as a good lesson to have a demo-fallback which also works offline, although admittedly that's not as realistic.
we did have a fallback which worked offline. the problem was that without wifi we had to rely on the iPad's compass (previously, with wifi i was proxying gyroscope data from iPod Touches tucked in the back of the iPad cases) - normally this would have worked fine. when we were onstage with so many cameras there was so much current flying around that the compasses went completely haywire and we were truly fscked. I wasn't kidding when I said on stage that if the iPad 2 had come out a week earlier we wouldn't be having any problems :)
Re: TEDTalks as of 06.16.11
#53There is another spreadsheet, I just discovered via reddit, that also includes PostRank engagement rankings:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=tWri7T3f4...
*It takes a while to load.
Re: TEDTalks as of 06.16.11
#54Why 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 !?!!
Re: TEDTalks as of 06.16.11
#55Does 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?
Re: TEDTalks as of 06.16.11
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
A good chunk of the TED talks never make it to the site.
Interesting, I wasn't aware of that.
Re: TEDTalks as of 06.16.11
#57Re: TEDTalks as of 06.16.11
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed, a download is most useful to me. I'd rather play with the data.
I created a CSV version. Will that help? http://dl.dropbox.com/u/70442/TedTalks.csv?dl=1 edit: I've noticed some slight errors, but they should be easily fixed. It was a quick copy paste job, and a quick edit in TextMate to remove extraneous rows. Sorry about that. If I had the time I'd clean it up nice. Maybe someone else would like to.
This is great, thanks.
I put it in revise and did a tiny bit of cleanup, but nothing worth really publishing.