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I post a new video every day. Each one is an average of three minutes long. Some people may not think my content is interesting, but I tailor to an audience, I suppose... an audience of people like me... working moms, of course. Josh is right about traffic. Look at the big picture. When I go to the feedburner site, I always view statistics from the beginning of my vlogging time to now. Sure enough, the graph is going gradually up. I get an average of 5 more daily "feed pings" per week. Even if no one at all read my vlog, my most important audience is four people--two grandparents in Maine, and two grandparents in Texas. They love seeing their grandsugars on a daily basis. Susan --- In [email protected], <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been reading this group for the last week or so and have been > officially video podcasting for a about the same time. > > What I find perplexing is the hand wringing over Rocketboom and it's > perceived slights to the video podcasting community. > > 1. People have been trying to break into the television business by using > streaming video for the last ten years. It's only been in the last year or > so that there has been a tipping point of cheap broadband and easy access to > video technology that allows people to really be creative. And radio > stations have been trying to do the same thing with streaming their audio on > the web. > > It was only with the invention of RSS and the ability to whip off an MP3 > that podcasting and internet radio became a phenomenon. > > 2. Old media has money, and they solve problems with money. They're able to > show up everyday with hours of fresh and good looking programming because > they have money. Rocket Boom is the best in class video podcast. Not because > it's clever, or has amazing production values, but because it shows up > everyday. That consistency has a tremendous value. And I would say that > anyone who is jealous of that or thinks they can do better to just do it. > There is nothing stopping you. RB has a tremendous room for improvement -- > as does any human endeavour. If you can do better, please do. > > Video blogging and video podcasts in general are enjoyable because they have > immediacy and an unfiltered perspective that people crave. My favorite video > podcast right now is http://TikiBarTv.com -- it has a really fun perspective > that I don't see anywhere else and great production value. But it only comes > out once a month. If their were RSS feeds for http://Homestarrunner.com and > http://Roosterteeth.com I jump on them in a second. > > 3. The iPod video is the first mass appeal gadget designed to work with > downloaded video. The PSP could do it before, but it's kind of a pain and > Sony would prefer you bought UMD movies. The video iPod gives us as content > creators a tool -- it plays on the Video iPod. Which means people with > quicktime or players of similar compatibility (PSPs included) will also be > able to see our work. > > 4. The real future for all of this is being able to send our video material > not only to pocket level devices like iPods and PSPs, but when Tivos > themselves will reed mRSS feeds and be able to subscribe to your favorite > podcasts on your TV. > > 5. It seems obvious that the popular content producers will be co-opted by > big media if they let themselves. While the artists and iconoclasts will > remain small and personal. > > 6. We are in the period of video podcasting and video P2P sharing right now > where music was 8 years ago. There's a lot of dedicated hobbyists out there > who collect TV shows and movies from the net and trade them. But soon Big > Media will aggressively enter this market. iTunes has started it, and the > Howard Stern deal and others have started to make consumers comfortable with > the idea of getting the shows they want when they want them, rather than > being broadcast at an arbitrary time. > > 7. What does this all mean for this group of 1600ish people reading this? > Get good at creating video that people want to watch. If you can establish > yourself right now when there are less than 200 video podcasts on Podcast > Alley you're going to have a better chance at 'winning' in the end. And what > does winning even mean? Does it mean having podcast geeks swarm you like > Dawn and Drew did at the Podcast expo? Getting a show on MTV? > > For me video podcasting is the synthesis of years of filmmaking and trying > to break through into Hollywood. It allows me an avenue to find an audience > without going through a gatekeeper. If people like what I'm doing they'll > come back for more. > > -K > > > -- > > > Kent Nichols > http://beatboxgiant.blogspot.com > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/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/
