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Six Degrees: Emily Lazar at the Aspen Ideas Festival (No Fact Zone.Net)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:42:34 GMT

I mentioned in my last post that Colbert Report producer and talent booker Emily Lazar was at the Aspen Ideas Festival talking about “Media and the Campaign” yesterday. Well, what do you know, there’s some video of it up at FORA.tv! There are four parts to this video, but the fourth one is [...]

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FORA.tv and The Aspen Institute to Broadcast the 2008 Aspen Ideas Festival (Business Wire)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:08:00 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FORA.tv, the brilliant ideas network for video discourse and debate, will distribute content from The Aspen Institute’s 2008

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Fora.tv: high-brow video done right (Aqute Research)

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:48:27 GMT

Fora.tv's wide range of videos regularly attract 50,000+ views - difficult to achieve even on YouTube, especially given the type of content and since Fora.tv most likely attracts a far higher quality audience than YouTube. The quality of content on Fora.TV is high (reminiscent of Intelligence Squared and Monocle); accessibility is good including RSS and iTunes podcasts. The only...

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The Science Of Manipulation, Restoring Peace In Complex Emergencies And The Future Of The Internet (Fora.tv) (Sources And Methods)

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:55:00 GMT

Some interesting recent offerings from Fora.tv: Deceiving Image: The Science of Manipulation On the 60th anniversary of Orwell's Politics and the English Language, George Orwell described political speech as consisting "largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness." Some six decades later, many symptoms of manipulation and propaganda diagnosed by Orwell persist on the American...

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Stiglitz on Globalization and the Economics of Information (3quarksdaily)

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:23:05 GMT

An Asia Society talk, over at fora.tv:

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VIDEO: My talk about Global Kids at NetSquared Conference (The Click Heard Round the World)

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:51:00 GMT

My colleague Rafi just informed me that my talk about Global Kids at the NetSquared Conference a couple of weeks ago can be viewed on Fora.tv. You can also check out my slides from my presentation here. Sorry the audio...

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Simon and Kos talk politics (NDN Blog - NDN Blog)

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:01:39 GMT

Thanks to our friends at FORA.tv , we now have video from last week's event in San Francisco with Daily Kos founder, Markos Moulitsas. Check it out below:

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Conscious Capitalism: From Social Responsibility to the "Experience Economy" (Green Bloggers Digest)

Wed, 21 May 2008 20:23:00 GMT

“We're now hip deep, if not drowning, in the ‘experience economy'.” I recently attended Part 2 of the Commonwealth Club’s panel discussion Conscious Capitalism (part 1 of the discussion was held last January and is available online at Fora.TV – Part 2 should be available there soon). Panel members included: Steve Diller, a partner with Cheskin Added Value and co-author of Making Meaning: How...

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China's Demographic Problems, India As A Counterbalance To China And A Revolution In Political Economy Against Jihad (Fora.tv) (Sources And Methods)

Mon, 19 May 2008 17:11:00 GMT

A few recent gems from Fora.tv: Nicholas Eberstadt: China's Looming Demographic Troubles AEI Fellow Nicholas Eberstadt discusses the effect of an aging population on China's workforce, the skewed gender demographics and its implications, and the future of China's social capitol. Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 Location: Hoover Institution, Stanford, CA, http://fora.tv/2008/04/28/Nicholas_Eberstadt_China_s_Looming_Demographic...

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Fora.tv, the C-Span of the Web, raises $4M (Venture Beat)

Wed, 07 May 2008 23:24:44 GMT

Fora.tv , a video site that some have called the “C-Span of the Web” for its intellectual video archive of conferences and symposiums, has raised a $4 million first round of funding . The site has relatively little traffic, compared to the big, more general video sites, but its serious approach — and presumably educated audience — is likely what attracted the investors, who include William...

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Fora.TV Gets $4 Million First Round For Intelligent Video Programming (Paidcontent)

Wed, 07 May 2008 20:46:16 GMT

Fora.TV , a distributor of online video for a discerning audience, has raised a $4 million first round from Adobe ( NSDQ: ADBE ), William Randolph Hearst III (affiliated with Kleiner Perkins) and other investors, reports Beet.TV . The SF-based site previously raised a $2 million from Adobe, for a total raise of around $6 million. Distribution partners include C-SPAN and various political think...

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Fora.TV Squeezes Another $2 Million Out of Hearst and Adobe, But Still Comes Up Short (TechCrunch)

Wed, 07 May 2008 18:03:57 GMT

Web video for intellectuals is a hard sell. The videos on Fora.TV come from speeches given by intellectuals and business people. It competes with Big Think, which has a slightly different format. Will Hearst and Adobe Ventures believe in it enough to put another $2 million into Fora.TV, along with some other unnamed investors. [...]

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Fora.TV Squeezes Another $2 Million Out of Hearst and Adobe, But Still Comes Up Short (back-report.com)

Wed, 07 May 2008 18:03:57 GMT

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"Intellectual" Video Site FORA.tv Lands $4 Million (Digital Media Wire)

Wed, 07 May 2008 18:03:54 GMT

San Francisco - FORA.tv, a video site that specializes in political and cultural content, has raised $4 million in its first round of funding, from Adobe Ventures, William Randolph Hearst III and others, Beet.TV reported. read more

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Vid-Biz: Fora.TV, Blinkx, Net Neutrality (NewTeeVee)

Wed, 07 May 2008 16:46:44 GMT

Fora.TV Raises $4 Million; high-brow video aggregator closes Series A from William Randolph Hearst III, Adobe Ventures and others. (Beet.tv) Blinkx Starts Content Management Service; the Advanced Media Platform automates content discovery, indexing, distribution and presentation on a publisher’s site. (MediaPost) Congressional Panel Split on Net Neutrality; debate over the necessity of regulation...

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Smartypants Video Network FORA.tv Nets $4M in Series A Funding (Mashable)

Wed, 07 May 2008 16:10:23 GMT

FORA.tv, a site described as a sort of “YouTube for thinkers,” has grown over many months of its relatively young life to comprise a collection of video content of political, cultural, technological, scientific, and business flavors, with heavy emphasis on intellectual depth ordinarily not found in the sound-byte-strewn medium of various other video networks on [...]

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Middle East Dynamics, Challenges Facing Colombia And Robert Mueller On Intelligence Gathering (Fora.tv) (Sources And Methods)

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:28:00 GMT

Fora has changed its format a bit, making it easier to watch full programs or just interesting snippets. The items below are taken from Fora's offerings over the last week. Parag Khanna on Middle East Dynamics Parag Khanna, author of The Second World , divides the Middle East into three distinct regions with unique political issues and highlights the rise of arabism and islamism, which permeates all...

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Stephen Marglin's Heilbroner Memorial Lecture (New Appeal to Reason)

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:26:00 GMT

Just came across this interesting lecture on Fora.tv, which looks like You Tube for intellectuals. View Stephen Marglin on the Future of Capitalism on FORA.tv "The Future of Capitalism: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community with Stephen Marglin. This was the third annual Robert Heilbroner Memorial Lecture at the New School in New York. Heilbroner wrote, "Capitalism's uniqueness...

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Zimbardo Lecture on How Good People Turn Evil (The Situationist)

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:01:56 GMT

Two weeks ago at the World Affairs Council of Northern California, Situaitonist contributor Philip Zimbardo gave a 71-minute lecture discussing the situational sources of evil (available from FORA.tv). Warning: This Program Contains Graphic Imagery. from fora.tv posted with vodpod * * * For a collection [...]

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Signs of intelligent life at YouTube (EducationPR)

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:13:16 GMT

Intellectual content can be difficult to find on YouTube, even in its ‘education’ section, says Dan Colman at Openculture. So he saves us some time by presenting 10 YouTube video collections worth exploring, including UC Berkeley, @GoogleTalks, The Nobel Prize channel, TED Talks, and FORA.tv, among others.

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