Bigthink.com---You can access hundreds of hours of direct, unfiltered interviews with todays leading thinkers, movers and shakers

What Company Says:
bigthink.com is a new and growing website, currently in its private beta version, with a simple mission:

This is a digital age, one in which a wealth of accessible information empowers you, the citizen-consumer. But where is the information coming from? How accurate and unprocessed is it, really? Ask yourself this: how empowered do you feel debating a television screen or a newspaper?

Their task is to move the discussion away from talking heads and talking points, and give it back to you. That is Big Think's mission. In practice, this means that their information is truly interactive.

How It Works:

When you log onto our site, you can access hundreds of hours of direct, unfiltered interviews with todays leading thinkers, movers and shakers. You can search them by question or by topic, and, best of all, respond in kind. Upload a video in which you take on Senator Ted Kennedy's views on immigration; post a slideshow of your trip to China that supports David Dollar's assertion that pollution in China is a major threat; or answer with plain old fashioned text. You can respond to the interviewee, respond to a responder or heck, throw your own question or idea into the ring.

The interviews are just one aspect of the site. They are meant to spark discussion by giving you examples of what today's leaders think about broader issues, rather than the blow-by-blow nitty-gritty you see on network news.

Every idea created on the site finds a home in The Idea Network. The Network is intended to be a cross-section of the Big Think project, a place to expose yourself to a range of perspectives and people. You may not agree with everything you see, but they promise you will be glad you took a peek.

The Web has no shortage of self-anointed experts, and the Expert Network is their way of reclaiming a little nook of cyberspace where depth of knowledge and expertise still reign. To that end, they have chosen people who are the best of the best of the best in a variety of fields and equipped them with webcams. Every couple of weeks, they will report on the latest developments in their area of expertise. Its a finger on the pulse of academia, business, politics, science and art.

More at:http://www.bigthink.com/