The TED conference is posting videos of their talks. TED was founded by Richard Saul Wurman in 1984. To quote the TED site:
>TED was born in 1984 out of the observation by Richard Saul Wurman of a powerful convergence between Technology, Entertainment and Design. The first TED included the public unveiling of the [...]

I was struck by a line out of a Burton Group document that I’m reading.
>… the creation of user groups… are the human equivalent of a technology integration strategy.
In Service Oriented Architecture, I.T. Portfolio Management and Model Driven Architecture; Center’s of Excellent (CoE) are a key part of the infrastructure. A key to [...]