Great speech after great speech -- for free

(Updated 27 April, see below)

One is a novelty. Two are a coincidence. But three (and possibly in a few hours, four) make for a trend. So there is a new trend: exclusive, often expensive, high-level conferences that give away world-class speeches for free as online videos. Not just live videostreams and archives -- that has been the case for a while now at many conferences -- but edited and curated versions that can be watched online or downloaded into a laptop or an iPod or a cell phone and subscribed to via RSS.

TED started the movement last June by offering its first TEDtalks (Al Gore on climate change, Majora Carter on community development, Hans Rosling on understanding data, Tony Robbins on why we do what we do, Ken Robinson on education, etc). The TEDtalks were made available from the onset in multiple formats: videostreams on the conference's own website or via YouTube and GoogleVideo; MP4 (video) or MP3 (audio only) downloads from the TED site or via iTunes; possibility to embed them in one's blog or website; the whole for free, under a Creative Commons license, paid for by a sponsor (carmaker BMW). As I wrote when the TEDtalks program was launched, TED set a pretty high standard, taking conference podcasting to a whole new level.

LIFT (Geneva, screenshot at left) followed suit, with significantly fewer resources, putting online talks by physicist Brian Cox (read my lips: he's a future superstar on the conference circuit), Wikimedia chairwoman Florence Devouard (the speech that created so much controversy), industrial ecology specialist Suren Erkman, Nokia's Jan Chipchase , "Everyware" author Adam Greenfield, and many others. Here too, the talks are free, can be watched online or downloaded, and LIFT provides an exclusive innovation: a version formatted specifically for downloading into cell phones.

Five days ago, Pop!Tech (Camden, Maine) launched its own Pop!Casts channel (screenshot at right), featuring speakers such as the NYT's Thomas Friedman, Partners in Health's Serena Koenig, the Barefoot College's Bunker Roy, the MIT's Neil Gershenfelt, the amazing bionic patient-doctor couple Kuiken-Sullivan , and about twenty others, with more to come (sorry, no direct links available, you've to go to the main page and select the speaker). Pop!Tech curator Andrew Zolli said in an e-mail announcing the launch that the conference's goal is to "inspire people everywhere to build a better world by harnessing the power of visionary ideas", and that the Pop!Casts will further enhance that mission. The sponsor in this case is carmaker Lexus.

Going a step further, TED is launching today its fully new website, which is actually organized around TEDtalks (rather than video being just a section of a conference's site) and around the tagline "Ideas worth spreading". The redesign of the site was prompted by the success of TEDtalks: since launch in June of last year, with a dozen or so speeches originally online and two being added every week, they have been downloaded or streamed 8.5 million times. The new site (left) launches with some 100 talks by British explorer Ben Saunders, designer Stefan Sagmeister, microbiologist Eva Vertes (read my lips again: another future conference superstar), former US president Bill Clinton, Nobel laureate and DNA discoverer James Watson, media activist Sasa Vucinic, One-laptop-per-child's Nicholas Negroponte, architect Joshua Prince-Ramus, development entrepreneurs Jacqueline Novogratz and Iqbal Quadir, computer interface designer Jeff Han, "In praise of slow" author Carl Honoré, "Tipping point" author Malcom Gladwell etc (plus several musical and art performances, such as those from dance group Pilobolus and comedian Ze Frank) (Disclaimer: about 15 of the talks on the site were recorded at TEDGLOBAL in Oxford, which I produced).

The TEDtalks can be accessed in multiple ways: by themes ("Inspired by nature", "Tales of invention"), by title or speaker name, by tags, by events at which they were recorded, etc. The site -- developed by a team under the leadership of TED media director June Cohen -- yet again pushes the standard for conference video. It's sophisticated, beautifully designed, includes a special video player allowing large-screen playbacks and automatic adjustment for bandwidth capacity, and the talks are marked in "chapters" (picture right) helping users to immediately find key moments, and are accompanied by a summary. There is also a rating system (but no "stars": this one is about describing the content with adjectives - which over time will become another entry point to find a talk) and of course there are biographies and additional information on every speaker.

The new TED site (complete with minisites for conferences and the TEDprize and a blog) also introduces another novelty: a social networking tool that allows anyone to set up a "TED member" profile for free, post comments on talks, choose favorites, etc. Sign up, create a profile, visit mine -- you need to be logged into TED.com to see members profiles -- and drop me an e-mail. (Don't expect to be able to send mail to Bill Clinton, Sergey Brin or Meg Ryan however: TED conference attendees will be able to control their level of visibility).

I said at the beginning that there might be a fourth such sites going online: I'm told that the new D:AllThingsDigital -- the Wall Street Journal conference -- website should be unveiled at AllThingsD.com today Monday, just a few weeks from their next conference (end of May in California, featuring a rare Bill Gates-Steve Jobs joint appearance) and that it will offer conference videos as a key feature. 

This burgeoning of conference podcasting worldwide suggests a few thoughts:

• One: great ideas and knowledge are now shared freely as never before, available for people to use and share: I've heard of teachers using talks as part of their syllabus; corporate managers burning them on CDs and giving them to their staff or using them during team retreats; etc.
• Two:  all of those conferences seem to be doing it for the same reason: TED believes "in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world"; Pop!Tech's Zolli (quote above) talks about "harnessing the power of visionary ideas" to "build a better world"; LIFT's goal is to "connect people (...) and propel their conversations into the broader world to improve life and work".
• Three: the multiplication of conference videos may open a niche for a meta-curator role, picking the best of the best.

Which in part is what this post was about: all the talks linked or mentioned here are great and definitely worth watching.

UPDATE 17 April - The New York Times has a story about the new TED website and the economics of free conference videos: Giving away information, but increasing revenue. Excerpts:

The new site will generate more advertising revenue for TED, but more important, conference leaders said, it will expose TED’s content to millions of people who would otherwise never attend the event. In so doing, TED is at the vanguard of a trend in the conference industry, where organizers have begun to exploit assets that in years past evaporated as soon as speakers left the stage.
(...)
From a business standpoint, Ms. Cohen said that giving away the conference’s content in such a highly polished manner has “completely transformed” the organization. “Conventional business logic would tell you that in a community like TED you have to keep your commodity scarce and expensive to retain brand value,” she said. “But the same year we started releasing most of our content for free we raised our conference price by nearly 50 percent and still sold out in 12 days.”
“This has actually created a huge challenge for us, in how to manage our growth,” Ms. Cohen added. “We have a waiting list of a couple thousand people for the event and we can’t grow it more. So the question is how to expand it in other ways and do more online.”

UPDATE 27 April: I was 10 days too early, the D site launched today, and it's nowhere as compelling as I expected: columns and videopodcasts from Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, head-to-head video posts from Walt and Kara together, "guest columns" called "Voices" from IT executives that are more than happy to write what they want under the WSJ banner, and that's pretty much it. Basically, a section of the Wall Street Journal. Within an  interface far less user-friendly than the wsj.com's.

Comments

[Stephanie Booth]

SHIFT is also putting online videos of talks:

http://blog.shift.pt/

[J.]

will there be Hans Rosling's talk from this year? so far there are only 4 talks from last TED 2007 online, will there be more?

[Adam Greenfield]

To what degree (if any) do you think this trend is being driven by the conference speakers themselves?

Personally, for the last several years I've stipulated that if I'm videotaped at all, the video must be released free to the public under the appropriate Creative Commons license, so I'm delighted to see conference videos released with even fewer restrictions. This is a great step.

[Lucy Bernholz]

And Fora.tv is a new service that provides this to independent booksellers, conference providers, NGOs, etc. It has partnerships with the Global Philanthropy Forum, World Affairs Councils and bookstores around the country. I already find it disappointing when I miss a conference and can't find the video shortly thereafter.

[MicheleB]

“the multiplication of conference videos may open a niche for a meta-curator role, picking the best of the best". I think you just wrote your own job description, Bruno.

[BrunoG]

Thank you Michele, too kind. :-)
Adam: I commend you for asking organizers to release your talks, but I suspect the movement is driven more by the intersection of public demand (too many people trying to get too few tickets for top conferences) and of the explosion of online video (organizers see an opportunity).
Johannes: two or three new TEDtalks are released every week on ted.com, including Rosling's and all the others from 2007.
Bruno

[Laurent]

For once we do something before TED I think it deserves to be mentionned ;-) So LIFT was the first conference of the triad you mention to put ALL its videos online for free, back in February 2006!

More info on the ideas behind giving away the presentations on the NYT website: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/technology/16ecom.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[Florent]

In a much more local scale, the swiss network for professionals Rezonance.ch has released until now more than 60 hours of free online videos of the well known "First Tuesdays" conferences in the french part of Switzerland, since 2003! Sorry guys, but as we all know, no man is a prophet in his own country.
Bruno, thanks for always bringing us interesting news, hope to see you soon :-)

[Peter Warne]

This really makes me unimpressed. With the exception of Lift (well done, Laurent), these free talks are given away so long after the event that there's almost no point. TED in particular; you can read the presentation in the NYT Times (Steven Levitt), the media in general (Steven Pinker) and even in a book (Richard Dawkins) before you can swoon over the free podcast. I think events like these can stop patting themselves on the back and crowing about their new-style digital democracy when they achieve the gold standard - live webcasts and podcasts available a few hours after the event. Everything else is just window-dressing and an alibi for open-ness.

[BrunoG]

Allow me to disagree, Peter. These talks are not about news: they're about ideas and knowledge. If you check out some older ones (click on the Malcom Gladwell link above, it's a video from 2004) you will see that they are still fresh and relevant. The exercise in openness of these and other conferences (I'm not talking on behalf of TED here, this is Bruno speaking) is pretty remarkable if you compare it to the exclusivity they used to harbor just a few minutes ago. But look at it this way: they need to maintain some sort of exclusivity (hence, delayed release of the videos) in order to be able to attract attendees - and, in a way, make those same videos possible.

[BrunoG]

Laurent, Florent: yes, LIFT and Rezonance and many other conferences have been putting videos online for a while now -- that's what I have written in the very first paragraph. The new trend is that of very exclusive and expensive conferences doing so, and doing so in an edited, curated way. But my hat off to you for the openness and the generosity in sharing your conference's content with the world. :-) Bruno

[Peter Childs]

While I really like conference videos (and agree with you - they're about the ideas) it would be really useful to have information on how important the ‘visuals’ are – and if they're low having an option to convert to MP3 for listening only (for those of us who listen during runs etc).

[Peter Warne]

We're going to have to agree to disagree, Bruno. But to Peter - it is remarkable (if you were there, which in two out of three cases I have been) just how little importance the visuals have to the speech. Maybe there's a lesson here (or is that just me?).

[A Nairn]

A similar thing, The Veritas Forum, coming out of Harvard in 1992 has been putting their talks on Christian topics online for some time now. Most are mp3, but they have some video too.

www.veritas.org

From what I understand, their format is more single talks on university campuses, and not so much conferences.

[prasad]

Visit the fllowing site for some more links on the interesting videos as well as interesting Books

http://ceo-articles.blogspot.com/

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" talking with wise and knowledgable man is scarce reward . "
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