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The pan is the next version of the original MTV... :) Only instead of stringing together music videos they got for free the pan is sringing together viral and independant media. Just like mtv this works because The Pan is giving these artist promotion.... it's the same model... just a different medium... a different market and a different generation... and I think it's a bautiful thing because it allows us to draw tremendous parrallels between MTV "revolution in Cable TV" and our revolution in internet based media. I really hope the pan succeds tremendously if only because I want to keep following the evolution and enjoying the simple parrels and differences between these two so called revolutions in distributing media. BTW, if you're interested in MTV's story you should wikipedia it... and while you're at it... perhaps more so you should wikipedia Ted Turner and the CNN story... he very much predated MTV and infact MTV more or less coppied his architecture... of course by the time MTV came around everyone was copying CNN's architecture... ...that architecture btw, was to take a single niche... in CNN's case news... and make it global... and make it 24x7 around the clock... it was a radical idea in it's time... because everyone knew the news was supposed to be a one hour thing at 5'oclock and 11 o'clock... who in the world would watch news 24x7? .... and yet the pervasiveness of CNN showed that you could recycle and regurgetate and recontextualize the news over and over for 24 hours and people would tune in because they new at any point the could tune in and they'd catch the top issues of the moment... ...and now Tivo has come along... and proposed something different... but Tivo is not the end all be all... the CNN's and MTV's of this generation are still out there lurking waiting to be discovered... Current TV many thought might have a stab at this... but as many have pointed out they simply BLEW it big time.... the're just the same old media in the new clothing.... indeed architecturally they throw a bone to participation... Personally... and I know my opinion means nothing to what time will teach us... but I think the MTV of tomorrow is the idea of the Personal Feed... the idea that you can create a channel that's completely YOURS... your media... and that you can interact with that personal channel in any and every way possible... that it's going to be pervasive in time and space... watchable not just at any time of the day, not just on demand... bit anywhere you want it... in front of the TV... while on the subway on your ipod or PSP... perhaps on your Nokia770 or cell phone... wherever you want that constantly updating channels of information you'll have it... and this may on one level sound absurd but then it's already true... we're ALL... all our videos are going to make up that channel... call it channel internet or some B.S.... but it's not going to be channel CNN... or channel MTV or whatever.... the end user is going to take ownership over that channel... and all media makers will be able to do is make media ... not craft the channel... not decide what to put in front of you... and what ads... they'll get to make their shows and decide how to make them "available" and we'll decide how we want to access them and when. This is a huge shift in the world of media... from a world of couch potatoes from a world where people will reach through the network and east from an infinite bufette of media. And once again this may be my personal B.S. but the services and tools that are most in line with that vision will be the ones that succeed best. I could go on four hours about google video vs. iTunes video vs. yahoo's plans... all of them want to bring big media to the internet... but really it's the one who's most "open" that will win... period.. the one who allows the most media makers to enter the marketplace and the one accessible by the most consumers... and all matter of interaction inbetween. Mark my words... either by the end of 2006 or the end of 2007 Apple's glorious closed platform will either become the coffin in which they soffocate or they'll have to dismantel it and open it up to everyone... this does NOT mean they'll loose money... but it does mean they'll loose marketshare... just like they did in the Windows/mac showdow in the 80's. The most open platform will win. My money though the start is humble is on google. ...btw.... ebay.com... same damn story... they opened the markets to everyone... turned every buyer into a seller, and look at them now.... buying Skype for $4 billion... crazy bastards. Peace, -Mike On Jan 16, 2006, at 4:00 PM, Adam Quirk wrote: On 1/16/06, Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think I am more of a fan of picking out my own content. That is This is very true. If what you wanted to watch existed on the TV, then that would be the place you would watch it. The point here is that this stuff isn't made for the TV, it's made for The PAN. Eventually, in a predetermined time period, we are going to have 100% original content made specifically for The PAN. We just don't have the resources to do it yet. Until then, we find videos that we want to watch, and think that other people would want to watch, and put them in the feed. It's a matter of taste though, and if you don't like the stuff we're putting in there from other people, you probably won't like the stuff we're creating originally either. The beauty of video on the web, for me, is that you can do whatever the fuck you want. From your statements, can I assume that you watched the 1st video and were unimpressed by our content? AQ YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS
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