Spreadsheet of every TED talk as of 9/2/2009

TED is an annual conference where speakers are given about 15 minutes to present something amazing they've done or know about. I've been to the last few TED conferences and I find them to be both awe-inspiring and humbling. Most of the talks area available for viewing at the TED site.

Here's a spreadsheet someone put together that lists every TED talk available for viewing. It includes a short summary of each talk. While browsing it, I found one talk I missed: Eames Demetrios presenting a history of the work of his grandparents, Charles and Ray Eames.

Spreadsheet of every TED talk as of 9/2/2009 (Via Economists Do It With Models)

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Anonymous

thank you!!

The TED interface for browsing videos is terrible. This is great.
fullerenedream

@ dagfooyo: That’s the first thing I saw when I glanced past the image too! Kind of hilarious.
zikman

fucking chairs! god I love TED.
AnoniMouse

Satchmo in the background! Cool.
Anonymous

Wait! How is this “every TED talk”? Richard Saul Wurman was running these in the early 1990s, but none of those talks are listed here.
Anonymous

Cool! How do I save this thing in case it is unpublished?

I mean, I know how to do File->Save, but how to make it readable?
Anonymous

@ Anonymous (#11): Every TED talk hasn’t been posted on-line as yet. This spreadsheet purports to be a list of all that have been posted as of Sep 02, 2009. It’s likely that the reason that the presentations that you mention are not listed is either because they are not yet posted, or, if they are available, they were posted after Sep 2nd.
aschwa5

Thank you, thank you, thank you. This is awesome. I can now be even LESS productive at work!
Anonymous

Great, thank you! One week of holidays left, lots of videos to watch :)

(“Humbling”? Why?)
thebulfrog

Now all that’s needed is for someone to turn this list into some nice graphical chart separating the subjects out by subject, and what we’ll have is hundreds of hours of time well spent/categorized.
Anonymous

@#7

To download, click the edit link at the bottom of the page, then choose File -> Download -> Format from the Menu.

Kudos for the author :)
dagfooyo

I stared at the post image for a full 20 seconds thinking, “wow, awesome node map! Must be how the talks relate to each other by topic or something…” before I realized it was a picture of chairs.
Anonymous

Fantastic! There’s a few in there I missed myself.
cattermole

Well, my wife and i attended the most interesting talk you missed….he is a neat guy. However, his grandmother is Virginia Lee Burton, who wrote The Little House, AND Mike Mulligan…..do You remember?