Online Video Suddenly Gets Brainy

David Kesmodel writes "Several online-video efforts are under way that offer a more cerebral alternative to the typical fare seen on the Web, the Wall Street Journal reports. The ambitious Fora.tv, for example, intends to establish relations with all of the lecture series from the nation's scores of think tanks, civic groups, bookstores and the like, and then put tapes of their speeches and panel discussions online in an easily searchable fashion."

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that's gonna hurt

[cyphercell]

...put tapes of their speeches and panel discussions online...

So, these experts get to watch the drooling masses compare their work with the last episode of American Idol.

Why?

[MyLongNickName]

Why do we need this when we have Slashdot?

Re:so...

[danpsmith]

but i really don't believe that anoybody, who wouldn't watch news channels and use - maybe even international - websites to stay up-to-date with what's happening, will just because of a new possibility start to be interested. you can even find some informational stuff on youtube, but as long you are not interested in this kind of things, you'll still type in "boobs" instead of "global warming".

Then there's only one rational solution: to educate these people we need to tag videos about global warming with "boobs." In theory, this wouldn't be really misleading, as the more global warming occurs, the more spring/summer weather months we have further from the equator and the less clothing girls will wear during those months. Who knows, maybe some of them will even go wild on winter break.

I don't get it, how is that not a $SERIOUS_TOPIC?

[msouth]

I mean, I searched for boobies and found this.

I would think video of that would be very educational. What are you guys on about? You don't think zoology is cerebral?

Re:Won't work

[cyphercell]

Hey! I whine about my life on myspace, around here I just complain about Microsoft! Take it back!