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Online Video Suddenly Gets Brainy

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the hard-to-compete-against-jackass-tv dept.

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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  1. Won't work by slusich · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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  2. Why? by MyLongNickName · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why do we need this when we have Slashdot?

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  3. MIT Open CourseWare by The+Media+Mechanic · · Score: 5, Informative

    MIT's Open CourseWare has online videos of undergraduate and graduate course lectures of actual math, engineering, physics professors... Many of whom are top researchers in their fields. This is about as brainy as you can get!

    For example...

    http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-01Physics-IFal l1999/VideoLectures/index.htm

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  4. Re:Right ... by cyphercell · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who is Sanjaya?

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  5. Re:i wonder by Drew+McKinney · · Score: 4, Informative

    It has already for some time. "Big Media" calls the phenomena of short internet videos and blurbs "infosnacking". Blogs, aggregate sites and sites like Youtube are included as sources of infosnacks.

    CNN and MSNBC have both tried versions of online blogs and infosnack videos with little commercial success. A few years ago MSNBC launched its big campaign to many oohs and aahs from insiders but few people on the 'outside' paid little attention. While small internet news productions like Rocketboom took off from such content. It seems industry still hasn't caught on.

    PBS did a great documentary on this called the "News Wars" - i think part 4 of 4 or 3 of 4 is where they talk about infosnacking.