TV, the medium, is extremely revolutionary. Let us not forget the rich content that has come through on TV throughout its history. Because of it's power and it's intimate relationship with the masses, $$ started influencing the content, and the masses gradually get trained to accept the limits of what has been sent through the pipes to your homes.
Enter new technologies..... new ways to bring content to the masses.... to peoples homes and even onto their TVs. videoblogging and vodcasts are providing a great potential to enhance world cultures with fresh content from people that you were previously not able to easily 'consume'. This is the core of the grass roots open media revolution.
Verdi wrote:
"the desire to replicate TV and film on the web is drowning out the idea of people videobloggging to communicate."
The idea of Attention is relevant here. This presupposes that people who have an interest in 'communicating' and creating meaningful content... the type of content that many of us hope to see more of.... the type of content that can incubate change in the world....the type of content that spreads humanity..... will seize to exist or be born from millions of independent content creators, just because their is also alot of noise and more hollow types of content with focus on audience size and financial gain. I think this is fundamentally wrong to believe. And my proof of this is the amount of crappy content that saturates us already... that has been flooding culture for years.... and still, despite this potential 'drowning' effect, here we are - in the midst of a new revolution of media makers. But people have been making meanigful content all along..... they just had so many barriers and obstacles in the way. Now that can change.
So, I don't believe that the "idea of people videobloggging to communicate." will be lost no matter how much content is delivered via the Internet's mediums that is more representative of traditional entertainment offered by the magor broadcasting networks. If anything, people who truly dislike such content will learn how to better tune out and tune in.... now the choices for content sources are enormous. now, media makers have open venues to utilize. technology will keep advancing and projects will continue to emerge. people will find what they want to find, and fade out the rest.
See, it's not black and white. We need to deal with massive amounts of content and not try to reserve a medium for a specific type of content. Vlogging is not exclusive to any particular style and it is not right to want to elliminate and discriminate certain types of content creators in order to preserve individual ideologies.
Make the content you want to make. Consume the content you want to consume. Understand the reasons why advertising/sponsorship revenue can be important in this world and don't belittle content and creators if it/they depend on such supporting sources. It is the reality.
sull
On 4/21/06, Devlon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I feel this is a huge topic right now with videoblogging and the way
the world is starting to see perceive it (no thanks to the media)...so
I started a new thread.
The debate about what a videoblog is will go on forever and that's not
what this is about (imho)...but it is about what videoblogging _isn't_
How can we make sure that (as Verdi put it) the communication tool for
every person that has grown from a few people doesn't go the same way
as radio, etc.
On 4/21/06, robert a/k/a r <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Correct, Verdi. I'd go so far as to argue it's a nail for the coffin.
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> The onus is on this collective intelligence of group to come up with a
> strategy to differentiate vlogging.
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> On Apr 21, 2006, at 10:32 AM, Michael Verdi wrote:
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> > ... And that the desire to replicate TV and film on the web is
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> > drowning out the idea of people videobloggging to communicate.
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