> > On Jan 16, 2006, at 3:39 PM, Nick wrote: > > I think I am more of a fan of picking out my own content. That is > the beauty of video on the web...the options. If I wanted someone > else picking out what was cool for me to watch I could just turn on > TV? No?
as is your right Nick... but in a world of infinite and abundant content... someone always does the picking... there are in fact infinite forms of packaging and filtering content... and it's unrealistic to think we'll always get it directly from our favorite vloggers mouth... though I think that's a strong part of the puzzle. Increasinly I think we'll rely on our friends and the communities we participate to be our filters... and who knows how they'll recontextualize and repackage content. I think we'll use traditional top down editorial methods as are used in news rooms and cable stations less and less getting more information through our communities... Call it the global village or whatever you like but there's a whole new economy based on how communications are accessed and used. It's no longer completely in the hands of the few... This is why publishers are suing google.. and record labels refuse to put content on line... they don't want to give up their lucrative marketing and distribution systems... they're afraid to give up some control... but increasingly it'll be US and our communities that make sense out of the world... no longer executives in board rooms or advertisers and marketers figuring out what we want based on how we spend our money... but US based on what we talk about and share. And as I'm fond of saying once everyone get's over that hurdle of giving up some controll we're all going to benifit societally and economicly tremendously... on all levels... not just down here in the trenches... the long tail so too speak... but even the big media companies. Indeed this swing is already happening in news media as newspapers realize that bloggers are not the enemy but are in fact offer a HUGE economic benifit to their business. To come full circle I tend to really like just that The Pan is packaging content in a really unique way... intermediating it differently... well also that it's really unique content... but the packaging is cool too. -Mike mmeiser.com/blog evilvlog.com mefeedia.com > --- In [email protected], Adam Quirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >>> >>>> The idea here is that people who subscribe to The PAN are > trusting us to >>> provide 15 minutes of *Really Good* stuff, so they won't need > them as >>> separate chunks. >>> >>> You should at least provide better text descriptions on the site > and >>> in the feed. This will make it easier to trust that you are > really >>> providing 15 min. of good stuff. Right now, I have no idea what > stuff >>> is there until after I've viewed. Text descriptions are too often >>> overlooked by videobloggers. They are really helpful to the > viewer >>> deciding if they want to download and also to search engines to > help >>> make your content more findable. >> >> >> I agree with most of this. If it proves to be true that viewers > won't watch >> a video until they've read something about it, we'll probably have > to >> rethink our presentation. Although Rocketboom, Bottomunion, Human- > Dog, etc. >> haven't seemed to have had a problem with a lack of text. We > provide a list >> of the individual creators featured in the video, with links, so > that's >> enough to get you started. But like I said, time will tell... >> >>> Plus 15 minutes is not that much for most commuters, who are a > good >>> portion of iPod video watchers. If you're watching the PAN in > the morning >>> on your way to work, you can stop it halfway through when you > get to the >>> office, then when you take lunch or go home at night, restart it > right where >>> you left off. >>> >>> I guess that's a matter of opinion. I can't watch 15 min. of > hardly >>> anything. I always prefer shorter bits to longer ones. >> >> >> Right, totally. It just so happens that this 15 minutes is a video >> doppelganger of what's going on inside my head a lot of the time, > so it's a >> blast for me to watch it, and I usually want it to run longer when > I see >> it. It's an interesting combination of content. >> > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > 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/
