Oh, that's how you read what I wrote. What my comment actually was meant to convey (and what I still think it actually says) was "there's still the occasional good talk now, but back then we regularly had truly excellent stuff like this talk by Clay Shirky (which admittedly is one of the best TED talks ever)."

Back in the day when TED's internet presence was pretty new and Google Reader still was alive and kicking and had a social sharing aspect (remember those golden years?), almost all of the TED talks were shared and debated heavily among my friends. Then we started sharing less and less of them, to the point were one friend shared a talk saying "finally, a good one again" and we all chimed in on how it got too popular and big for it's own good.