Let me say right now that if I could afford to go to TED, I would. But at $5000+/pop it is just out of reach if I cannot write it off. However, as a new friend from SouthBy pointed out, most (if not all) the TED content is available on the Web now. Good way to build your brand if you ask me. I would have done the same thing. I think it's very cool that they are posting archived content too (check out Negroponte's talk from 1984). That's the good Negroponte (Media Lab chap) not the evil brother.
I find in interesting (sad, really) that SXSW is so lame about getting videos and podcasts up on the SXSW site. Note the bit about releasing "over the coming months". Pathetic. In past years, I've seen it take them over six months to get the content up.
I was surprised to see that they dared to put up the terrible Zuckerberg keynote interview but then when I played it (I had been sitting down to lunch with the great Dutch fellows from soocial.com) I discovered that it mysteriously terminates about 5 minutes into the interview. Not having seen it, I can only speculate that this is the point at which the interview went sideways for Sarah Lacey (note that she has already started twiddling her hair by this point).
Hard to tell whether it's incompetence or real intent, though I intend to write and find out.
Posted by artandscience at March 12, 2008 06:23 PM