I have just come across the best website I have seen in a very long time - TED: Ideas worth spreading. The TED conference has been running annually since 1984 and they publish their best talks online for free. It brings together some of the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers and challenge them to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes.

It is a real joy to find something with so much substance on the internet, so often it feels like sifting through beaches of sand looking for grains of gold but the TED website is full of nugget after nugget. Here is one of my favourites so far, it’s a talk that just keeps getting better as it goes along.

I am reminded of the closing lines by Ed Murrow from Good night and good luck when talking about television, it strikes me as true for the internet as well.

This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box. Good night, and good luck.

The great thing about the internet is that it can be everything for everyone and you are not locked in to watching the same content as anyone else, personally I am thrilled to have found it being used for purposes other than to “entertain, amuse and insulate”.