Big Think:

Calling itself "The YouTube of Ideas", Big Think is an online collection of interviews with academics scholars, writers and politicians on topical subjects. The Web 2.0 of it: You can create your own videos to answer to, say John McCain’s opinions on immigration policy. If you’re hot under the collar about such a thing.

I don’t need to do that. I’d just like to hear what smart people have to say about issues I don’t know anything about. But Big Think seems to be firmly aimed at pundits in training. I found buried in the help comments that Big Think has RSS feeds (as any browser post say 2005 does) and that other ways of consuming interviews are on the way.

I hope so. Big Think’s only in private beta and who knows what could happen?  I know its very un-2008 of me to say so but on something like this, I just wanna watch stuff. I’ll do my making elsewhere.

So why not let me?

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