I’ve been known to burn a whole afternoon just watching talk after talk. Here’s some of what I’ve enjoyed of late.

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy takes Ted inside a school for suicide bombers in Pakistan.

Chris ‘moot” Poole, founder of 4chan, on online anonymity.

Sir Ken Robinson continues his discussion on the education crisis.

Adam Sakowsky walks Ted through the building of OK Go’s Rube Goldberg machine.

Lawrence Lessig talks about remix culture. It’s a good talk if you overlook his obsession with party labels.

Johanna Blakley’s talk about the success of creative industries that aren’t protected by intellectual property law.

It’s hard to know where to start talking about a club act as innovative as Eclectic Method. They’re video DJs, a rare breed of performance artist, who have taken the tools of music DJs — turntables, scratching, sampling, live looping, live effects, and live remixing — and have added video clips, including a whole range of video effects, to the dance mix.

Live video improvisation is not especially new, but it’s only in the last couple years that big tech companies like Pioneer and Sony have caught up with the vision of real-time improv that the the three members of the group — Brits Ian Edgar, Geoff Gamlen, and Jonny Wilson — have been seeking to realize since 2002. …more

by Marianne Rogoff

We’re distracted, our attention is shot, we are under surveillance, and we don’t care! We like being linked and friended by strangers who may or may not be who they say they are. …more