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."

Comments

Won't work

[slusich]

No one wants an online video service unless it's filled up with whiney emo kids complaining about how badly their lives suck.

Seriously, while it sounds like a good idea, implementation is everything. It'll be interesting to see how they do.

Re:Won't work

[The Great Pretender]

Not too much different to reading Slashdot filled up with whiny IT guys complaining about how badly their lives suck.

Re:Right ...

[cyphercell]

Who is Sanjaya?

Re:so...

[Red Flayer]

but as long you are not interested in this kind of things, you'll still type in "boobs" instead of "global warming".

Maybe it's just me, but even for those of us interested in those type of things, we still find our fingers typing in "boobies" despite commands from our brain to type in $SERIOUS_TOPIC. It's the unavoidable curse of being male and on the internet.

That said, I agree that it's not likely to draw a huge amount of interest among people without prior interest -- except by referral. If someone sends me a link to a good video, I'm likely to look for additional videos from that source. This is where the high signal-to-noise ratio pays off in attracting and keeping users.