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by jasonlbaptiste 6016 days ago
Gathering content:

- Amazon Turk, while defining the sources yourself. ie- Go and find me a link, description, title, etc. for every presentation for Startup School 2009 - Virtual Assistants - User submitted (submit a talk)

I'd start with one category to start, most likely tech conferences+keynotes. That alone is enough content to get started.

Next, I'd probably move on to a second category: actual school lectures and focus on a few select topics: CS and entrepreneurship. I'd then use mechanical turk to search through the top 100 universities and see if they have online lectures. If it's a yes, id then create another task to index and categorize that content.

Lastly, I'd then go to a third category: Online Screencasts. I'd once again focus on a lot of tech material. Ruby on Rails alone has ~200 screencasts via railcasts.

You could probably accomplish this for about $1000 or less in mturk+virtual assistant fees, along with a lot of hard work yourself organizing from a higher level perspective. You could certainly launch with the first category alone- tech conference talks, keynotes,etc. I'm pretty certain there is video out there to learn anything you want, and it will only keep growing. What would have cost 100k+ in education fees ten years ago is now 100% freely available. Someone just needs to organize the information.

I have lots of other ideas on the topic. Feel free to comment here or each out: j@jasonlbaptiste.com.