Lifecasting's just one of those technologies that nobody knows what to
do with yet. It also becomes a chicken or the egg situation, like
iJustine alludes to in the video when she mentions that she feels like
people EXPECT her to do something. The question is whether you do
things in order to film them, or you would have done them anyway, and
you happen to have your camera along.
The other 'problem' with lifecasting right now is that nobody that
I've seen doing it so far is an actual entertainer. It's people
living whatever their current life is, except there's a camera there.
Lifecasting will become interesting when someone is paid to go to
specific places and do specific things. As it stands, it's a bunch of
people that don't actually have anything to do, but are willing to let
you watch that and text chat with them.
I've watched iJustine's channel a couple of times when someone on
twitter's linked to it. Other than that, I only watch
http://justin.tv/sarah, but that's because I actually *know* Sarah and
I might be interested in seeing what she feels is interesting to
broadcast, or I might see other friends of mine on her camera.
Every time I've been on those lifecasting sites, there have been ~300
people watching the channels, so obviously, it's interesting to THEM.
To me, it's a bunch of downtime with intermittent sparks of
interesting content.
I'd rather watch something filmed all day, then edited down into
INTERESTING material.
--
billcammack
http://community.realfans.tv
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Sorry everyone,
I don't know what happen in the post but here the link, again...
http://potw.news.yahoo.com/
Again my apologies.
Terry Rendon
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wrote:
Yahoo! News
Yahoo%21%20News%20put%20up%20an%20article%20about%20%27lifecasting%27.%\
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20 just put up an article about 'lifecasting.' This has probably
been
covered
on this group before but I would like to know what you all think about
the it.
I find it invasive to people's life and kinda creepy.
Terry Rendon
http://www.terryannonline.com
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