I'm not saying that there won't be an increase in content. I'm saying that the increase hardly matters when there is already more content than there are hours in a day. We've been at critical mass in terms of content even before the Internet came along. Content producers aren't just competing with content from their own niche distribution model. When I watch video blogs they compete for time against everything else I do. So in order for me to choose to watch they have to be more compelling, for some reason, than say any of the other entertainment options I have at any given time.
Now can selling your audience to a third party be a moral issue? Yeah. But it depends on how you do it. If you make your users register to see your content and then sell their personal info behind their backs to market research companies then that would be immoral in my book. If you communicate to your audience that you need to take on some advertising or a sponsorship to help pay your bills then I see no moral issue with that. It's the difference between being up front and honest about what you're doing and not. There can also be issues with how much you might compromise your content to please advertisers as well, and that's yet another can of worms that isn't unique to this space. On the topic of what a "traditional" video blog is, I gotta wonder how a medium so young can have anything that is really traditional. RB is pretty old in terms of vlogs (just over a year) is that a traditional video blog? The only traditions I can see in video blogging is the basic tools and techniques we use. I wouldn't want to lock in any hard and fast definition of what a "traditional" vlog is. Once we do that then that can stifle the creativity of what others think they can do with it. One thing that I think we can all agree on is that putting video on a blog is a powerful thing. But really, I gotta say, even the most mundane personal video blog has much more value than playing dominoes. Bill Streeter LO-FI SAINT LOUIS www.lofistl.com --- In [email protected], Richard Bennett-Forrest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Bill, > > >I call bullshit, on this. Anyone who has an > >audiance has value to offer someone else who wants to talk to that > >audiance. > > I believe the original point of this thread was to find income > outside of advertising and also that selling your audience to a third > party, is a moral issue. And anyway, advertising won't pay a > videoblogger's bills. > > >To say that no one should or could make money off video blogging is > >like saying that no one can or should make money off of blogging, but > >that's already being done so there goes that theory. > > Well, let's just step back for a minute, I didn't say that no one > should or could make, so please don't put words in my mouth. I said > that people who aren't making money, but are looking for a way to, > should probably carefully consider their options. > > Secondly, it depends what you call blogging and videoblogging, > doesn't it? The discussion I believe was about the more traditional > type of videblog, so personal entries in crono order on a blog. (Ooh, > that'll get me in trouble on this list) > > >There hasn't been a lack of free content in the world for a very long > >So I have no idea what your point is about increasing amount of free > >content. > > So you're saying the amount of free content won't increase? > > Here's an example. Who here watches RocketBoom? How many RocketBoom > lookalikes are there today? How many will there be in six or twelve > months? Will RocketBoom be able to compete? Andrew and Amanda have > staked their claim, but it won't last. In a year, just like in > podcasting, there will be a hundred, if not a thousand RocketBooms. > Maybe not as sexy as Andrew, but there you go. ;-) > > I'm going to step out of this one now. Several opinions. Who knows > what we'll be doing in 12 months. I'm more than happy to be proven > wrong when my vlog is my primary source of income. > > Regards, > Richard > 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/
