One word: money. Chris --- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada
[email protected] http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ========================= On 2012-12-08, at 12:21 PM, Paul C Bernhardt wrote: > I began to notice both a proliferation and reduction in quality of the > listings on the TED site a year or more ago. My first concerns came up a few > years back when we had a job applicant use a decent, but far from excellent, > TED talk as part of their teaching demonstration. It was nearly pop > psychology motivational concepts. > > When a brand changes its basic style questions arise for me. Formerly, TED > was a single conference: an eclectic collection of presentations by persons > on the forefront of their fields tasked with keeping it brief and at the > lay-language level. There was great stuff for use in the classroom for topics > I cared about bringing into the classroom and definitely consistently > interesting. Then, I noticed there was not just the original TED talks, but > some from other locations. It seemed reasonable that more than one TED > conference would be valuable and didn't think too much of it. Then, I noticed > that it seemed to be more than a handful of new locations, and the quality > bar had dropped dramatically. No longer was it persons on the forefront of > their fields, and I saw some presentations that were by persons whom I > believed to be fundamentally motivational speakers. Alarm bells began to go > off in my mind. > > Now I see a series of articles in Wired Magazine that documents the extents > of the problems that had thought I was seeing: > > TEDx is everywhere, all the time, about anything, by anyone and everyone. > > http://www.wired.com/business/2012/11/ff-tedx/?utm_source=Contextly&utm_medium=RelatedLinks&utm_campaign=Previous > > Pseudoscience presentations: > > http://www.wired.com/business/2012/12/pseudo-science-saps-the-power-of-tedx/?utm_source=Contextly&utm_medium=RelatedLinks&utm_campaign=Interesting > > Paul > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62bd92&n=T&l=tips&o=22250 > or send a blank email to > leave-22250-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=22252 or send a blank email to leave-22252-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
