The quantity and quality of online videos is expanding at an overwhelming rate. If you want to watch fiction there are plenty of choices out there, but I stick to nonfiction. I haven’t had time to explore most of these yet, but here are some new developments to add to the list:
TED
The best conference in the universe has redesigned their site and uploaded 30 new videos in the process. The new site has a cool category browser, relatively luxuriously large video player, comments, and rating such as inspiring, long-winded, misguided, funny, etc.
Pop!Tech
Another conference similar to TED. It looks like it may be just as good, but I’m just not familiar with it yet.
Fora.tv
A virtual conference. It’s a collection of presentations and forums on politics, business, technology, arts, culture, science, and religion.
The Research Channel
Started as a cable channel for researchers at major universities to share their work. It has expanded to include 3000 online videos.
Neave.tv
Paul Neave put together a collection of 100 YouTube, Google Video, and Blip.tv videos shown full screen with a nifty interface.
Blinkx.tv
“Blinkx is the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine.” It uses speech recognition and visual analysis to crawl the web for video and audio media. It’s supposed to be a good source for full length shows.
