Time again for our Website of the Week, when we showcase interesting and innovative online destinations.

This week, it's a place where you can get audio and video recordings of some of the smartest people around, talking about politics and technology; religion, science and the arts; and speaking at places like universities, research centers and bookstores.

GRUBER:  "Every day in cities around the world, brilliant ideas are expressed in public discussions. And you can't have access to it,  until now. We deliver that access to you."

Brian Gruber is the founder of Fora.tv, a new website devoted to bringing unedited speeches, symposiums and other events right to your computer.

Fora is where you can watch Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus talk about ending global poverty, or former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright discussing the role of religion in American foreign policy.

There are lots of websites with online videos, but Gruber says that, in content and presentation, Fora is different.

GRUBER:  "You're going to find only the very best in each category. We provide chapters, for example, for every event. So it may be that, here is a two-hour panel discussion [but] there's only three minutes that interest you. You can look at the chapter titles and find that. We have synchronized transcriptions for featured programs. You can post your own comments. You can download it in any format that you want to. And so we provide an environment for people that is really differentiated from anything else out there."

Some programs are audio-only, but most are video. But either way you can download an MP3 to listen to on your computer or portable player

Many of the presentations come from organizations that are already taping and webcasting their events, but if you've got a video camera you can contribute, too, and Brian Gruber hopes he'll get more material from all over the world.

Great ideas, and some really smart people on Fora.tv, or get the link from our site, voanews.com.