On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 18:15:00 +0200, Jay dedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> but Im old...32...and in the oldtime days, we just sat and watched > long streams of uninterrrupted video...and this is a throwback to that > time. Exactly! :o) It's all about the difference between online media and offline media. Videoblogs are online media with all that entails of granularity and such. That why I reacted when you took a collection of online media and assembled a piece of offline media (a video for a projector, basically tv). That's fine as long as you realise that in the process you loose everything that makes the online media different - you're devaluating the videoblog by transforming it into tv. But then you throw your tv-compilation back online without changing a thing. It's just offline media put online now - it *was* online media, but now it's *offline* media put on the web. For all the talk about 'new media' on this list it's a sad thing to happen. I know the paradigm shift can be hard. Videoblogs are not just video put online. It's a new way of thinking video, and since we've all spent all our lives being trained to think of moving images in a specific way (none of which being blogging) it's quite a jump. Some dude once said that we understand all new media in terms of the old. Like tv when it arrived was understood in terms of radio with images. So I understand that we understand videoblogs largely in the terms of tv, but at the same time people might as well think videoblogs in terms of text blogs. You can see it in many videoblogs with things such as intro sequences and credits (and in the discourse, but I don't know if we should go there). But there is a huge difference between understanding videoblogging in the terms of tv, and seeing videoblogs as tv. I'm seeing a little too much of the latter, and I'm sorry that I had to jump on your video for my case to complain about. - Andreas -- <URL:http://www.solitude.dk/> Commentary on media, communication, culture and technology. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
