TED Talks

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TED is a fantastic website. For the past 9 months I have not had cable/satellite TV. I thought that I would miss it, but I have found that I now spend less time surfing channels and more time surfing the net. Surfing TV channels is very passive. Even with about 100 channels to choose from you are still limited to the choices of material. Surfing the web, and also contributing to the web through Blogs, etc. makes me feel like a more active participant. More importantly, I have more control in choosing material that I'm truly interested in learning/viewing. TED has a wealth of interesting topics to choose from, and allows you to search speeches/presentations by subject. I highly recommend this site.