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A two-panel meme.
The top panel shows an NPC character in front of a red “TED” sign saying “organise your time or smth”.
The bottom panel shows a crowd of NPC characters responding with a speech bubble that reads “OMG, life changing”.
There are three kinds of TED talks:
Buy my pop-sci book or invest in my startup
Rich liberals are using capitalism and science to make the world better
Fraud.
Anybody remember that Israeli scientist with the burn scars on his face? That guy could do all three at once.
I miss when TED talks were actually good and not a mass consumption commodity item. They saw money and stripped the thoughtfulness.
TED talks were never paid for. It’s a self promotion platform.
Fine, then buy my self help book, now on sale at all major retailers.
The opposite, even. Tedx Talks, and I think maybe even some Ted Talks in general now, are paid by the presenters to have the platform
The opposite, even. Tedx Talks … are paid by the presenters to have the platform
That’s completely untrue. If anything, regular TED provides some expenses beyond travel stipend (meals etc), but do not pay for speaking. Neither TED nor TEDx do, and if anything you have it backwards.
Provide a source, because I am certain you pulled that out of your ass.
For TED proper, speakers can receive more than just travel and lodging. TED currently says it also provides a small stipend to offset expenses or financial impact from preparing for and attending the conference. It is explicitly not a speaking fee or honorarium. Source
For TEDx, the rule is much harder: no speaker fee at all. Organizers can cover travel, hotel, meals, etc., but TED explicitly prohibits paying speakers. Source
There have been folks paid by separate programs to do TED talks. But TED didn’t pay them or the folks who paid them. They’re an agnostic platform when it comes to financing.
Yeah looks like I just internalized something wrong at some point ages ago and have been carrying it around since.
You are overwhelmingly correct. Looks like anyone can apply to host a tedx event as long as they can fund the event, but there’s some kind of vetting program in place
Say what you want, TED taught me to tie my shoes correctly. Because if you align the knots wrong it doesn’t stay tied.
Ted taught me how to love.
… I don’t think he has a platform, though.
