4.12.2008

TED Talks




"TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader."

Their website has lots of great videos of recent, and not so recent, speakers.

Al Gore's new slideshow on climate change was especially compelling.

4.06.2008

Brijit

I've tried on several occasions to use an RSS aggregator to put all of the stuff I want to read in one place. I also seem to end up with thousands of unread articles. I hate feeling stressed for not reading all of this stuff. At the same time, I'm still looking for something to help me get all of the things I want to keep an eye on in one place.

I just started trying out Brijit. Brijit combines the RSS feed concept with human editors who summarize articles down to 100 blurbs. You can easily find the full article if the summary interests you. Brijit also compares your preferences with other uses and recommends other articles, etc. Sounds good in theory--we'll see how it goes. (You can see my recently read articles, etc, on the sidebar to the right)