[DDN] Rocketboom's Powerful Liftoff (fwd)
The next issue of BusinessWeek will feature the following article about video blogging, examining the explosive growth of the video blog Rocketboom.com and other home-grown onlne video ventures -andy Rocketboom's Powerful Lift-Off These are the early days of video blogging. Most of the postings on the Web are rough and tedious -- little more than home movies. But the success of Rocketboom and a few sites like it underscore the potential of video blogs. Cheaper video recorders mean just about anyone can make videos, while the spread of speedy Net service means almost anybody can watch clips posted online. The result? The Internet is coming alive with a mix of video, from the polished parody of Rocketboom to the raw interviews of reporters. As these videos flow into the living room, they will reshape what we think of as television. TV will be transformed, says Mitchell Kapor, the founder of Lotus Development Corp. and now an investor in Participatory Culture, an online video startup. People will look at it as historically quaint that you had to watch something that others chose for you. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_36/b3949087_mz063.htm -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net http://www.tsunami-info.org Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com --- ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] Rocketboom's Powerful Liftoff (fwd)
This is VERY cool. Makes old-style written blogging look like morse code. Al Gore better watch out. Thank you Andy. Jim Lerman Andy Carvin wrote: The next issue of BusinessWeek will feature the following article about video blogging, examining the explosive growth of the video blog Rocketboom.com and other home-grown onlne video ventures -andy Rocketboom's Powerful Lift-Off These are the early days of video blogging. Most of the postings on the Web are rough and tedious -- little more than home movies. But the success of Rocketboom and a few sites like it underscore the potential of video blogs. Cheaper video recorders mean just about anyone can make videos, while the spread of speedy Net service means almost anybody can watch clips posted online. The result? The Internet is coming alive with a mix of video, from the polished parody of Rocketboom to the raw interviews of reporters. As these videos flow into the living room, they will reshape what we think of as television. TV will be transformed, says Mitchell Kapor, the founder of Lotus Development Corp. and now an investor in Participatory Culture, an online video startup. People will look at it as historically quaint that you had to watch something that others chose for you. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_36/b3949087_mz063.htm -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.13/78 - Release Date: 08/19/2005 ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
