BigThink: The YouTube of Ideas

[mandy]

Think of BigThink.com as a YouTube of ideas. Hopkins and BigThink's other cofounder, Victoria Brown, set their sights on going beyond the academic and corporate conferences that bring together leading thinkers. Their goal was to put the elite and their ideas in the same place as everybody else. This sometimes volatile mix can push response and participation in directions that they otherwise would never have gone.

BigThink.com is a venue to exchange ideas online. The Web site provides a twofold approach. It produces interviews with leading thinkers on big-picture topics and their expertise. Hopkins then makes videos of the interviews available viewing and commentary. The Web site also provides a user format for video and audio contributions on topics affecting people, using them as a linchpin for public discussion among the site's users.

Ultimately, Hopkins hopes the mixture will produces a nexus between talking heads and everyone else. There is no cost to users, and all content is free...

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