I do like some of McLuhan... in particular my favorite quote is:
"The hybrid or the meeting of two media is a moment of truth and revelation from which new form is born"
Only because it echoes my experimental cravings for audiovisual synchronizations.
The funny thing is, I think my interpretation of this simplifies the conversation.
I think it is more complicating, and even discriminating, to use the term and idea of "videoblogging" to not encompass all video content creators... personal video diaries or rboom-like newscasts.... they choose to use the videoblog medium as a base for having an existance on the "web" using video as core content. I am not putting much emphasis on what happens to a media once if lands on an iPod etc. However, I am heavily suggesting that in order to distribute your media within this space... and using the relevant technologies such as RSS, then it is logical to label and make a distinction of that as being <insert favorite buzzword>.
I wont go and find sample videoblogs that do not have a vodcast setup. But they are out there. In fact, some of what you call non-qualifying content to be a videoblog actually dont have a vodcast because the business logic suggests that bringing people to the web site is ideal... and using RSS is not. Some hollywood so-called videoblogs come to mind.
Even if every videoblogger has a vodcast, it still does not mean that they must have one in order to be videoblogging.
Some have argued that a blog is only a blog if it contains an RSS feed. Well, I never agreed with that. If you agree with that, then we will only agree to disagree. I feel RSS is an optional content syndication technology that easily is applied to a blog, but neither being dependent on it to make it a blog. Comments, Trackbacks, Pings, even Chronology can all makeup a blog. But RSS is not really mandatory. RSS makes a blog be more intertwined with the blogosphere. I suggest the use of RSS. But I do not dare tell someone that they are not blogging, not a blogger, dont have a blog just because they dont use RSS. Feel free to do that... others here have argued in that direction.
I just dont see the logic. I do see the discrimination though.
Back to video.... rich-media. What's the difference. If you can tell someone who is blogging ( by my perspective ) with video but have no interest in having awide audience.. or at least not having one made possible by use if RSS, which would provide them with a vodcast, that they are then NOT a videoblogger.... well, go for it. You can say something like.....
" Hey you... you person with a blog (using blogger.com) who embeds video that you make in your posts.... you aint no videoblogger... you know why punk? you aint got RSS. you're nothing, punk. nothing but a blogger with video posts.... yeah."
This hypothetical non-videoblogger could be posting home videos of their dog... UFO sightings... maybe some live music show from a club... or an interview... or ANYTHING. btw.
I am drunk... so, if I am nonsensical... too bad. But my repeated point is that it is irresponsible to say that a videoblog is just "personal" type of video content and anything more "showy" is a <insert favorite buzzword>. Why? How? Who sais this to be true? Speak up.
I dont care if 9 out of 10 cases are personal... it is not relevant. What happens when in 1 year... 2 years... this is totallt reversed? Then what? Then you decide to change your mind about what a videoblog is? No. You comprehend this now... because it is logical now... and makes room for any changes in any direction.
A VIDEOBLOG CAN CONTAIN ANYTHING IN VIDEO.
Why is this so hard to grasp? Why is this still a debate?
A VIDEOBLOG IS NOT TIED TO ANY SPECIFIC GENRE.
Its so easy to swallow. Right? Once you agree to this... everything else can become more clear.
A VODCAST IS THE USE OF RSS TO DISTRIBUTE VIDEO AND MAKE IT SUBSCRIBABLE.
IF YOU ARE A VIDEOBLOGGER WHO WANTS TO LET PEOPLE SUBSCRIBE AND MORE EASILY RECEIVE YOUR VIDEO CONTENT WHEREVER THEY WANT IT TO BE AND TO BE PLAYED BACK, YOU WANT TO HAVE A VODCAST.
On 12/25/05, wtrainbow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I understand the point - I'm justing trying to challenge it because I don't ascribe to the
McLuhan "medium is the massage" worldview which seems at the root of the debate.
In my assessment, the same video played in different contexts does not necessitate new
designations for each context.
A song on my iPod is the same song on my home stereo, in my car stereo, from my
computer. Different envirnonments produce different experiences and possible forms of
interaction but I don't think that requires creating a new term for every possible platform.
I'm not on the McLuhan bandwagon and I just respectively disagree and place greater
value on content than on medium. That may make me wrong in the world of McLuhan
sychophants but in the greater community I think it's a worthy discussion.
- but that's a whole other can of worms...
Regards,
Will
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