Re: [videoblogging] Re: Videomaker's Vidcaster.Net - Seen but not Seen

2005-11-03 Thread Pete Prodoehl
Deirdre Straughan wrote: On 11/2/05, Pete Prodoehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please define big success as the term may have different meanings to different people. Used by millions of people worldwide. Whether anyone is making money off it or not is immaterial (to me, anyway). Ok... We

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Videomaker's Vidcaster.Net - Seen but not Seen

2005-11-03 Thread Deirdre Straughan
Ah, I see where the confusion comes in. I was talking about the success of videoblogging in general as a technology/technique/medium - not anyone's specific videoblog, let alone my own! Success for any individual's vlog is best defined by that person, of course!-- best regards,Deirdré

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Videomaker's Vidcaster.Net - Seen but not Seen

2005-11-02 Thread Deirdre Straughan
On 11/1/05, Pete Prodoehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What will happen is that videoblogging will change from being a nicefriendly little community we are used to seeing here, into one wherepeople treat it like a competition for viewers, become obsessed with stats and popularity, insult other

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Videomaker's Vidcaster.Net - Seen but not Seen

2005-11-02 Thread Pete Prodoehl
Deirdre Straughan wrote: On 11/1/05, Pete Prodoehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What will happen is that videoblogging will change from being a nice friendly little community we are used to seeing here, into one where people treat it like a competition for viewers, become obsessed with stats and

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Videomaker's Vidcaster.Net - Seen but not Seen

2005-11-02 Thread Pete Prodoehl
Jake Ludington wrote: In the context of companies who use video blogging to further their cause without giving anything back to the video blogging community; Microsoft already does that with Channel 9. The upside of Channel 9 to Microsoft the corporate entity is creating a warm fuzzy feeling

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Videomaker's Vidcaster.Net - Seen but not Seen

2005-11-02 Thread Deirdre Straughan
On 11/2/05, Pete Prodoehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LOL. Seems to me it has already happened, as it was bound to. A technology can either be a big success or can be a nice little community - not both at the same time.Please define big success as the term may have different meanings to different

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Videomaker's Vidcaster.Net - Seen but not Seen

2005-11-02 Thread Pete Prodoehl
Deirdre Straughan wrote: On 11/2/05, Pete Prodoehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LOL. Seems to me it has already happened, as it was bound to. A technology can either be a big success or can be a nice little community - not both at the same time. Please define big success as the term may have

RE: [videoblogging] Re: Videomaker's Vidcaster.Net - Seen but not Seen

2005-11-02 Thread Jake Ludington
LOL. Seems to me it has already happened, as it was bound to. A technology can either be a big success or can be a nice little community - not both at the same time. Technologies dont create communities, people do. Its up to the people in a community whether they nurture it through

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Videomaker's Vidcaster.Net - Seen but not Seen

2005-11-01 Thread Pete Prodoehl
Gena wrote: I'm not angry at the guy. But it does say a lot about how one group will do the figuring out and others come by to adapt and appropriate. It is capitalism 101. Not saying it is good or bad. I can honestly say that sometimes I get really sick of always being in the first group,

RE: [videoblogging] Re: Videomaker's Vidcaster.Net - Seen but not Seen

2005-11-01 Thread Jake Ludington
In the NerdTV Show #6 Interview with Dave Winer, http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/shows/ , Dave talks about how Netscape first took his idea of RSS and didn't compeletely implement it and then Dave released a new, better version with his features added to Netscapes' implementation

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Videomaker's Vidcaster.Net - Seen but not Seen

2005-11-01 Thread Pete Prodoehl
Jake Ludington wrote: In the NerdTV http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/shows/ Show #6 Interview with Dave Winer, http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/shows/ , Dave talks about how Netscape first took his idea of RSS and didn't compeletely implement it and then Dave released a new, better