Yeah, I dont know if we are behind or if the cultural differences you referred to mean that we'll always be different like that. I dont know if the whole 'blogging' thing, let alone video blogging, ever meant the same to people on this side of the pond, let alone videoblogging.
As you said, the national stereotype of brits being reserved is generally true, maybe that will indeed make us more in need of intimate videoneting than other more outgoing cultures, just because we cant get that release any other way. Can a webcam get past the stiff upper lip? SOmetimes yes, but will we run away when we see some who have made themselves vunerable through video, get damaged? I dont really understand the full history or details of your feelings towards the community, the responses you get (or lack thereof), of vloggercons or vlogies or any other factor that contributes to the underlying sense of disappointment which you seem to be strongly hinting at in recent posts. I myself have a history of wibbling on this list, Ive lurked on fringes, failed to do hardly any video, been extremely vocal with my opinion hundreds of times, felt good, bad and indifferent, felt ignored, felt like a nuisance, felt useful, felt like a different species, felt both appreciation and frustration by the intreguing differences between americans and my own culture. And internet forums and mailing lists and groups of humans in general always elicit a very mixed bag of responses, often leave the poster hungry for much, much more. I bet its not so very different with comments on videos, its the terrible reality that it go great to dream, and yet most dreams end in a dissapointing descent to reality, and a lonely silent one is one of the worst. And for all my love of video, Ive always been to shy to say any of these sorts of things in video, too self-concious to even have a personal text-blog, so I spew the words here on this sort of group,a nd its probably a mismatch, but somehow I find safety in numbers (of people). Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Paul Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am thinking that this whole concept is a little behind over here, > so much so that it is only just recently that Youtube has been > mentioned on Mainstream TV and Radio and it seems any kid with a > mobile phone and computer can access myspace, there is also the time > element over here, it is still really uncool to spend a lot of time > in front of the internet rather than being in front of the TV. Also > video blogging over here, ie putting video onto a site, requires that > the person has a super inflated ego, something that is not so > British, we being the reserved sort. And you are right, over here > Reality TV rules, top shows include BIg Brother, I'm a Celebrity Get > Me Out Of Here, Wife Swap etc. So there must be some sort of > coalition between the two. However some news in, Channel 5 news is > now asking for Your News, a segment for the end of the evening news > where budding journo's with video cams or mobiles can shoot a piece > of video informing of some local news to them, these are exciting > times for us British, pity no one will read this or comment. > > Paul Knight > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
