{"id":675,"date":"2012-07-16T12:11:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T23:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=675"},"modified":"2012-07-16T12:11:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T23:11:19","slug":"ted-needs-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=675","title":{"rendered":"TED needs competition?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like TED, and the talks that it spreads freely.\u00a0 Friends have spoken at the conference, and come away waxing lyrical about the off-stage interactions, the meeting of minds and the thinking that results.\u00a0 However I can&#8217;t help thinking that there&#8217;s something beyond TED that&#8217;s not focussed on North America and Europe, and not stuck in the old-style broadcast paradigm.\u00a0 Some of this is encapsulated in a post I was referred to (thanks Twitter):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Can a new wave of technology thinkers produce a fresh outlet for smart ideas not (yet) co-opted as badly as TED? If so, it won\u2019t come from the well-financed centers of Silicon Valley but from the margins, the actual cutting edge.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/essays\/against-ted\/\">Against TED \u2013 The New Inquiry<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like TED, and the talks that it spreads freely.\u00a0 Friends have spoken at the conference, and come away waxing lyrical about the off-stage interactions, the meeting of minds and the thinking that results.\u00a0 However I can&#8217;t help thinking that there&#8217;s something beyond TED that&#8217;s not focussed on North America and Europe, and not stuck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation-culture","category-inspiration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":676,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}