Rives at TED: It is not a question of if you can, it’s do ya?
Posted by bryanzug - 2007/03/21
The TED conference videos are some of the most amazing pieces of free learning I have ever seen. While working out last week I was going through the que of them on my iPod when I came across this 4 minute piece by spoken word artist Rives — a riff on “If I Ran the Internet”.
Amazing — I watched it over and over again for 40 minutes on the eliptical.
As some of you know, I aspire to geek spoken word, and this, I think is the pinnacle of that admittedly narrow genre. Choice quotes —
- “It is not a question of if you can, it’s do ya?”
- “We can make ‘you’ve got hallelujah’ the national anthem of the cyberspace every lucky time you log on.”
Here it is from YouTube —
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