The Museum of Ideas
Something I have been watching for some time now is the collection of incredibly insightful talks that is called Ted.com. The conference started in 1984, with demos of the newly released Macintosh computer and Sony compact disc. But it took another six years to organize a second one: despite its erudite lineup, it lost money (as happens so often when nice people start organizing something out of passion).
Since 2001, Wired chief editor Chris Anderson has been the curator of the event. TED has had such speakers as Richard Dawkins, Jeff Bezos, Daniel Dennett, Malcolm Gladwell, Jane Goodall, Stephen Johnson, Steven Levitt and many more. All of the aforementioned names are shown online, in an elegant interface. It forms a wonderful collections of bright minds, a museum of Great Ideas.