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Feb 17 2011: At first I would say no. Because TED's strength lies in the selection process .. the staff tries to find the best ideas and presentations and is successful most of the time. But one does wonder how many great talks they have missed.

That is why I would love to see 'amateur' TED videos. But to have one big pool of videos wouldn't do for obvious reasons.

I would suggest to split the task so that TEDx websites (youtube channels) collect videos from local speakers and their community singles out the best ones. Those could then be curated by the 'main' TED staff. That way we could still browse through all of them by location/event, but would also be presented with a carefully curated list.