For several months I've suggested to all of the video and audio search players to make an attempt to crawl and provide a centralized search tool that provides access (maybe with a special interface) to some of the tens of thousands of hours of material from non-commercial organizations. I'm specifially talking about lectures, presentions, interviews, etc. emanating from univerisities, museums, think tanks, and other groups. I'm not sure if any of my pestering led to a decision by BlinkxTV to begin development of what I'll call a "virtutal lecture space." That's really not important. Regardless of how and why it...

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