A nice little photo documentary about China’s Uighur people of Xinjiang

In the last few days I spent   much time on twitter and while doing that I found some amazing video-platforms which are specialized in informative videos like: docs,  talks, speeches, interviews and so on. Until that point I am still looking for a good word to sum up that kind of videos, maybe: smartfilms, idocz or what ever. Today I thought of “q-tips”. Meaning: films that are not only penetrating your brain, but also clean the way you think. Just joking.  However, if any of you guys have a good idea for such a word, plz. let me know.

Today I don’t just want to be mubble about getDocued, but also want to present one of these informative video-plattforms that was new to me: www.bigthink.com

I like the clean design and the usability. I also like the way how bigthink presents the various topics. Instead of having a regular interviewer their just using flashcards. So basically it is a talk which it moderated by silent questions.

But bigthink has even more to offer. It tries to bring experts and users together so that a real discussion can evolve. That’s a pretty nice approach in my opinion.

I haven’t seen enough of their footage to really make a good judgement, but I got the impression that almost all of the experts who are being interviewed are from the US – and the whole program is a bit too much focused on the US.  But maybe that is just my European perspective.

But despite that, I think it is a great project and I will keep an eye on it – since this project seems to be very young I guess there is much to come.