Ha! Now I have your attention.... (ahem) My comments were summarising some general sentiments that I seem to have noticed rather than intended to point to anyone in particular.
I would agree with Mike that there is a "broader dialogue" outside of YouTube which YouTubers who never leave the walled garden don't participate in. But it's also true that there's a large and vibrant dialogue going on *within* YouTube which (I'm generalizing...). Now, to be fair, a lot of that dialogue is YouTubers talking to other YouTubers about YouTubey things (as opposed to, say, videobloggers talking to video bloggers about video bloggy things...). But still. I guess having one foot in one camp and a toe dipped tentatively in the other (thanks in no small part to Blip.tv, about whom i cannot say enough etc.....) I am just seeing what looks (to my superficial eyes) to be some small patches of itchy irony. As for the "destination blog/vlog" vs. the live journal blog analogy.... I agree that the 'top tier' blogs (in something of a self perpetuating system...) sit above the proletariat (ahem), and the same could be true for video blogs. Would I like to migrate all my subscribers somewhere I could monetize my work? Sure. Do I think, at this point, that there are enough of them, and that enough of them would follow to make a tactical withdrawal from YouTube worth my while? Probably not. Perhaps Malcolm Gladwell could identify the dozen people who would have to leave YouTube for a Tipping Point style collapse, but I fear I'm not one of them... Am I going to be tarred by the bush of "YouTuber" as my content migrates other places? It may be too late for that. Or it may not. One thing I think is interesting is that I read a lot about how the internet is increasingly "invisible" (ie taken for granted) by the current generation, with media distinctions essentially blurring. And I'm reading here that, if anything, more media distinctions are what's called for. Hmmm. Meanwhile, I do actually sort of understand what an RSS feed does. I can't for the effing life of me figure out what "feedburning" it will do. Although anything involving fire is always fun. Cheers MD www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv/ & etc. etc. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
