Next Week, 500+ Geek Talks Around the World

Brady Forrest writes "Next week, from March 1-5 there will be ~65 Ignite events happening around the world. Ignite is an opportunity for geeks to share their passions and ideas with local peers. Each speaker gets 20 slides that each auto-advance after 15 seconds for a total of just 5 minutes. The result is bite-size chunks of information that inform the crowd on new topics. Most of the Ignites will be streamed on the new Ignite video site."

Comments

Re:Let Me Calculate

[xenn]

Turn in your geek card immediately. Reading comprehension in mandatory.

Well, TED did jump the shark this year

[SuperBanana]

So in other words, this will be TED without the elitism (used to be you had to get "invited", now you can't join at all except to pay $1k to get streaming video), astronomical ticket prices ($6000 to attend the conference!), etc?

Christopher Poole, founder of 4chan, was invited to talk this year at TED.

"Eyyyyy!" *splash*

Re:Let Me Calculate

[Arthur Grumbine]

Reading comprehension in mandatory.

In mandatory what?

Yeah, he really shot himself is the foot with that one.