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TED会議、また始まりますね。今年はいかれるのですか？

Dear TEDizens,

I'm writing to share some exciting news. For several years now, we've grappled with the question of how to share TED: how to bring the powerful ideas exchanged in Monterey to a wider audience, while preserving the intimacy and integrity of the event itself. With the added demand on the conference this year - TED2007 already has a long waiting list - the question became even more urgent.

So today, for the first time ever, we're releasing some of the best TED talks to the public, and I would like to request your help in letting people know just how a special a treat they have in store.

The talks are available as a podcast series, TEDTalks, at http://www.ted.com/tedtalks and http://tedblog.typepad.com. We've launched with six remarkable talks - in audio and video - and will add more each week. Thanks to a partnership with BMW, all the talks will be entirely FREE.

It's a big moment: Until now, the TED experience has been limited to 1,000 people each year. But we've always known these talks deserve a much wider audience. Indeed, the whole vision of my foundation which owns TED, is to leverage the power of ideas to make a difference in the world. Now thanks to the maturation of online video and podcasting, and the visionary sponsorship of BMW we can share some of the best of TED widely for the first time. We're excited about this and trust that you share our enthusiasm.

I hope you'll make the time to rediscover some of the most moving presentations from TED2006: Al Gore's sage advice on living a carbon-neutral life; Hans Rosling's inspired interpretation of global statistics; Ken Robinson's vision for an education system that values creativity; Majora Carter's commitment to environmental justice; Tony Robbins' roadmap for reaching our potential; and David Pogue's software-inspired show tunes. We've launched with these six, and will add more weekly, pulling primarily from TED2006 and TEDGlobal, but also dipping into previous years.

Once you revisit these talks online, I hope you'll share them: Blog them, forward them, run them on your own! And encourage your friends, family and colleagues to watch at least three, back to back. As you know, they have a cumulative effect ... (And if you're able to contribute meaningfully to the spread of these talks, please let us know. We want to recognize the best contributions.)

A word on our sponsor: As I mentioned above, BMW has gotten behind these talks in a tremendous way. We've been truly impressed by their commitment to supporting the spread of ideas. And we're thrilled by the partnership, both because of their history of innovation (Chris Bangle, head of BMW Group Design, was a 2002 TED speaker) and their legacy of sponsoring ground-breaking media.

Their support has enabled us to really do this the right way. Painstaking efforts have been made to edit the talks so that they look fantastic in the new portable media. And we're making them available in a variety of formats (Flash, QuickTime, MP4 video, MP3 audio) and locations (at TED.com, the TEDBlog or GoogleVideo). They can be viewed on the web, downloaded from iTunes or received as an RSS feed. You can also incorporate them into your own (non-commercial) website (see posts on the TEDBlog for details).

In addition, the talks are fully searchable. Using speech-recognition technology from our partner Podzinger, the search function allows you to find keywords or phrases within individual TEDTalks, and then play the video from the moment when they're mentioned. (Try searching for, say, "South Bronx" or "carbon neutral").

I'm traveling, by necessity, this week. So if you have an urgent question or comment you wish to share, please email (or :cc) Director of TED Media June Cohen at tedtalks@gmail.com. June's a long-time TEDster, and she's done an awesome job leading the development and cross-media distribution of these talks.

Thanks again to all of you, for creating this thriving TED community, and sharing some of its best ideas with the world.

My very best,

Chris

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Chris Anderson
Curator
TED Conferences LLC
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