On Nov 1, 2005, at 2:55 PM, Pete Prodoehl 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 popularity, insult other videobloggers, find ways to make > money without giving anything back to the community, see only dollar > signs when the term 'videoblogging' is used, and so on... > > Do you think this won't happen? Or something completely different will > happen?
I don't know anymore. I thought things were changing for the worse this past summer but that seems not to have taken hold. The size of this group has about tripled since then. I did some quick checking: Group started May 31, 2004 I joined the group about mid November 2004 - about 125 members as best as I can remember. May 31, 2005 - one year anniversary - 550 members Oct 31, 2005 - 17 months - 1500+ members It seems to me we still have a pretty nice group here. We've had a number of, I think, really interesting and productive discussions lately. But looking ahead I can see that we could easily just keep growing and be a nice community of about 10,000 in a year or we could explode on our way to 100,000. I'm sure whatever happens won't be either of those which is why I'm not interested in going to Vegas. Verdi -- Me: http://michaelverdi.com R&D: http://graymattergravy.com Learn to videoblog: http://freevlog.org Learn to videoblog in person: http://node101.org ------------------------ 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/
