Since its public launch a couple of weeks ago, a new video-oriented website and community called BigThink has been called snobbish and "a YouTube for smarty-pants." But Montreal-born Victoria Brown, who co-founded the site with her partner Peter Hopkins, says the site isn't intended to be elitist or preachy, and stressed that anyone is free to contribute their thoughts on just about any topic, including Britney Spears.
That said, however, it's clear that BigThink is trying to take the high road when it comes to content. Anyone who has grown even a little weary of the funny cat videos on YouTube or the coked-out Amy Winehouse videos on gossip sites such as PerezHilton may find it a refreshing change. Brown and Hopkins have seeded the site with video interviews featuring people like such as Moby, psychologist Steven Pinker, activist Aayan Hirsi Ali and Buddhist scholar (and Uma's dad) Robert Thurman.
The BigThink site is divided into two large content groups: Meta and Physical. The videos â€" of which the site has more than 180 now â€" are done in the style popularized by documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, with the subject looking straight at the camera, as though talking to the viewer. Most of the interviews are an hour long (although Ms. Brown says the site will be doing shorter, more news-focused interviews as well), but they are segmented by question and by topic, to make it easy for viewers browsing BigThink to find videos they might want to watch.
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