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Transcripts of TED talks

Andrew Ritz — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:07:02 +0000

If you want to find the transcript of a TED talk you can try this site:

Based on my experience so far, the transcripts are quite accurate!

Audio Drama Talk: the community for fans of Audio Dramas

Andrew Ritz — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:51:17 +0000

This site, is a good place for finding out more about what’s happening within the audio drama community. You”ll find news, events, podcasts and lots more.

Excellent video about the web

Andrew Ritz — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:31:08 +0000

STI International have produced an excellent video about the WWW. Why not check it out.

“With over a billion users, today’s Internet is arguably the most successful human artifact ever created. The Future Internet, an initiative driven by the European Union, has become a prime research focus of STI International and the Service Web 3.0 project. In order to explain, promote, and attract new contributotrs, we created a video to be viewed by stakeholders, who may be non-experts, in a new generation Internet. The video outlines the basic themes of the European Union’s Future Internet initiative. These include: an Internet of Services, where services are ubiquitous; an Internet of Things where in principle every physical object becomes an online addressable resource; a Mobile Internet where 24/7 seamless connectivity over multiple devices is the norm; and the need for semantics in order to meet the challenges presented by the dramatic increase in the scale of content and users.
The video has proved to be popular and has already appeared on the main pages of the EU Future Internet Portal and the Software and Services Unit website.
Please distribute this link in order to futher promote ambitious goals behind the vision of the Future Internet, supported by STI International and the Service Web 3.0 research project.”

TED: ideas worth spreading

Andrew Ritz — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:50:07 +0000

Ted.com, is the main source for “riveting talks by remarkable people!”. Here you can find talks on almost any subject. Three of my favourite talks are listed below:

Web Designer Steve Krug (Audio MP3 + Transcript)

Andrew Ritz — Fri, 30 May 2008 04:31:31 +0000

“Steve graciously allowed MarketingSherpa’s Publisher Anne Holland and Internet Director Scott McDaniel to grill him for an hour on what works (and what doesn’t.) Here’s an audio MP3 for you to listen to plus atyped transcript…”

Future of the Web

Andrew Ritz — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:45:30 +0000

Here is a talk by Tim Berners-Lee in which he presents his vision for the Future of the Web. The slides are here.

His talk is devided into four parts:

Philosophical engineering
The Web
The Semantic Web
The future

Another interview with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, conducted by Jonathan Freedland, can be found at Web Science. In this interview he gave his insight into why and how the web has evolved the way it has.