Bloglines, especially its new beta version, is the best way to access TED.

All the topics are arranged in the order of updates and nobody would miss anything posted on any of the forums of TED.

Bloglines is thus better than configuring email alerts which any way take notes of only the forums one posts for.

But to access the beta format of Bloglines, one must of Mozilla Firfox installed. It won't work with Internet Explorer.

If you are using google reader www.reader.google.com then add this link
http://blog.ted.com/   to your add subscription list and you will automatically get feeds

finance.google.com is also picking respective thread for each company.