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Should anyone be able to upload their TEDTalk to TED.com?
YES: because there are thousands of invisible geniuses out there. Let's bring their wisdom to the world! The TED crowd will quickly vote up the good ones.
NO: it will plunge the site into an ocean of mediocrity. The best thing about TED.com is that it's curated. Every talk is good. Don't turn it into youtube
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Ajay D
TED has established itself and any & all ideas/intellect if worthy can find its way to this PLATFORM. Once on that, it stands to gain more and has no scope of any loss/decline due to delay/timing whatsoever.
It’s on its journey to be a CURRICULUM itself as it covers most facets of fundamental learning including attitude for everybody; teachers, students, experts & the community.
If people at large want to offer their intellect, they can contribute to organizing more local TED’x events and get noticed to be elevated to the main TED PLATFORM. This will enable them to rejuvenate their ideas.
TED Conversation is already a finely cut avenue for enthusiasts.
Mladen Jankovic 50+
Carlos Belnap
Nathaniel Manning
In addition, TED should integrate more face-to-face conversation instead of all upload/download, like here on TED conversation. TED should integrate video into this interface instead of just comment-lists. I would love to be able to have real conversations with other people in the TED community. Check out www.theinteract.net/main for instance.
Emmanuel Damanakis
Of course TED should filter any content, and that means resources, but as I said TED is a huge community.
So i think, YES, a larger conversation could benefit all of us.
Philip Zeman
Philip
Jared Ransom
It should be a balance that would involve some major moderation. If the content is screened by some TED staffers it will keep it from becoming a mess of how to's, unintentionally offensive messages, and empty warm fuzzies.
I think it would be great, but it may not be practical.
Ahmad Coucha 500+
-TEDcollaborative is new seperate project (the same concept like the TEDx initiative)
-TEDcollaborative would have a definite theme ,and the speakers will be collaborators from all over the world .
-the speakers would record their talk ,obeying the normal TED brilliant format,and upload it to a special page on TED.
-after a screening process by TED adminstration to make sure that the talk follows the guidelines.it ll be available for the TED community to see it.
-then all the talks will go through a voting process to choose the best talks that ill be the official talks of that specific TEDcollaborative event and then they become a TEDtalk
why this project?
-it ll give the opportiunity to those with great ideas but can never make it to the TED stage to have their voices heard.
-it wont plunge the site with ocean of mediocrity as only a few selected talks will become a TED talk.
-and of course you can never truly know if something will work or not until you try it.so i guess experimenting is the keyword heer.i also believe that there was alot of concerns about the TEDx project especially that TED gave their brand for others to use,but the project eventually proved to be a big success.
some concerns:
-there are other websites like youtube that ppl can share on what they have:i say that whats special about TED is its brilliant format,not just the exposure.
-it ll be like video blogging:the solution for this lies in the guide lines and briefing on how to make it as much of a TED talk as possible.guidelines should include how the background should look like,the quality of recording,the posture of the speaker,...etc
thats all : )
Yunhee Shin 500+
Xiaoyong wu
L Lum
Daniel Beringer
What about a separate site, where users could upload their videos? (fitting some loose criteria about vulgarity, format etc) A voting system would cut back a large portion of the crap, making it easier for TED staffers to pick and choose from the best videos. The voting system would be like beta testing, and so long as the videos that make it to the TED site are curated and selected by TED staff members, these videos would uphold the tradition of excellence that TED provides. But what about the videos that for one reason or another stay hidden? If there was an option to submit or nominate a video we might be able to catch some of the ideas that would otherwise have slipped through the cracks.
A skillfully crafted video submission, viewing, discussion and voting system on a separate site could bring to light many hidden geniuses. Having TED select which videos will make it onto TED.com would ensure that only the best videos make it.
So I say yes, as long as the manner by which the videos are chosen will uphold the dignity and authority of the TED name.
Lee Wilkinson 20+
John Mavridis
Kevin Nakajima
Ben Jarvis 50+
Andrew Barratt
David Rodrigues 30+
TED isn't ready for it in its current form.
I think you are anticipating a new form of collaborative system based on hyper-participation.
It would be better to use a new form like social network and game (role playing game) to motivate and organise this new era of TED.
It has to be accessible from everywhere (smartphones).
Autoregulated with a very strong rating system.
Based on knowledge, wisdom and action.
Well, a huge and complicated thing but I hope it would exist one day :)
Gabriel .C 20+
Now, that`s not to say "opening" the site up slightly would be a bad idea. Why not accept independent TEDTalks from those invisible geniuses, screen them so as to make sure they fill the TED criteria, and put up the very best ones every X amount of time in a special section? The screening would would be a strenuous task to be sure, but I think the videos would attract considerable attention not just from viewers, but possibly sponsors, thus making the whole scheme profitable.
I would be more than happy with that compromise, and it`s nice to see the TED staff have obviously not been too dismissive of such liberal ideas.
Cheong Eung Ahn
Holly Hyder 100+
Philip Crume
Mark Baum
Barbara Todish
Ben Jarvis 50+
Antonella Broglia 500+
David Ward 50+