Don't feel bad Mark a lot of what is written here goes over my head as well.
Heath http://batmangeek7.blogspot.com --- In [email protected], "Mark Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I enjoy a reasonable level of success (if by that you mean viewership...) on > YouTube. > > (Modesty be damned, I'm the 45th most subscribed user on the site...) > > I have a more than passing interest on "crossing over" into "proper" > videoblogging, as defined by the Geneva Convention on Videoblogging, circa > the Treaty of Versailles) and I've found people to be incredibly helpful in > that respect. > > That said, I mostly lurk on this list and find a lot of it goes flying over > my head (I barely understand RSS feeds..). What I have noticed is a > pervasive (though not universal) attitude towards "the YouTubers" that at > best resembles a teenage boy with XBox trashing someone else's PlayStation > (or vice versa) and at worst some aging Congressman having his page take a > look at "the internets". > > "What are the YouTubers up to? Is it a series of tubes down which the videos > come? Are they talking to each other, these YouTubers? I seem to have > dropped a pencil. Can you bend over in your short shorts and pick it up > for me....?" > > While it may pain your eyes to actually look at YouTube once in a while, I > would suggest that viewing it as somewhere to "toss a bone" is not that > dissimilar to "old media" going, "the internets? well, it might be > somewhere to toss trailers for our network shows, but the network is where > it's at..." > > While I can understand the pain of having to explain that your video blog is > both a lot like what people do on YouTube, and yet not like that at all, > putting airquotes around YouTube "vlogs" may be part of the problem, not > part of the solution (not so much in a linguistic sense, more in the way it > speaks to an attitude that that's not "proper" vlogging, and worse....) > > Just ten of my many cents on the subject > > Mark > > www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy > http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv/ > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
