Indeed, the success of the TED video lectures and Edge.org — a Web site that John Brockman, an author and a book agent, created in 1996 and that has published dozens of video and text “conversations” with scientists — is evidence that the Internet has made it possible to gather small audiences intensely interested in subjects frequently ignored by the general news media.
[2]Indeed, the success of the TED video lectures [4] and Edge.org [5] — a Web site that John Brockman, an author and a book agent, created in 1996 and that has published dozens of video and text “conversations” with scientists — is evidence that the Internet has made it possible to gather small audiences intensely interested in subjects frequently ignored by the general news media.
Links:
[1] http://www.edge.org/news/scientist%E2%80%99s-online-interviews-draw-his-peers-out-of-lecture-mode
[2] http://tinyurl.com/aweyflw
[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/science/mit-physicist-gives-scientists-an-online-interview-outlet.html
[4] http://www.ted.com/talks
[5] http://edge.org/
[6] http://www.edge.org/memberbio/albert_l_szl_barab_si
[7] http://www.edge.org/memberbio/nicholas_a_christakis
[8] http://www.edge.org/memberbio/john_markoff