Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Web Secret #233: upworthy.com

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and I am thankful for upworthy.com.

With all the evil and stupid junk polluting the Internet, how about a website that promises to to make important stuff as viral as a video of some idiot surfing off his roof, and then delivers on that promise.

How about a website that posts:

This Speech Is The Reason My Time Machine Is Permanently Set To 1959 - footage of Bertrand Russell (British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, social critic and Nobel Prize winner) explaining what he would say to viewers 1,000 years in the future.

The TED Talk That Inspired Two Standing Ovations - It's no secret that TED talks are generally phenomenal. So what made 24 year old Sarah Kay's exceptional enough to inspire two standing ovations? Well, it's kind of hard to express. And that's the point.

Can Changing Your Font Size REALLY Help Improve The World? - sometimes the simplest ideas can be unimaginably powerful.

Most Upworthy postings are single images, or under 3 minute videos.

Thank you.

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