You hit upon what I think is the missing factor in this thread....the viewers.....and that was whom I was talking about when I started this thread, the average joe or jane who goes online to view videos, when they go online they think YouTube because that is all that they have heard, with all respects to Yahoo's buyout of Broadcast.com in 1999, who in the general public heard of Broadcast.com prior to Yahoo buying them out? I would venture a small handful. It is the general public I talk about a lot when I think about these things....
To the average person, the one who knows nothing of RSS feeds, subscribing to blogs, heck they don't even know what a blog is, honestly most don't. Come to Cincinnati, stop 10 people random on the street, I bet 1 maybe 2 have heard of RSS or a blog...but ask them if they have heard of YouTube? I would bet it's half...(sure that is just a guess, I suppose I will have to go downtown with my camera and ask them) That doesn't mean I think YouTube is the best place for videos, I don't, personaly I want people to come to my site. But that's me, all I can do is one step at a time try and teach people the differance and why sites like Blip are better. But the average joe wants to turn on the tv and look at a guide and channel surf, and YT is good for that, for better for worse.... Heath http://batmangeek7.blogspot.com --- In [email protected], "Mark Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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] >
