Hello Heath, On 12/4/06, Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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....
In 1999... I don't think the "general public" was really on the web yet. So that's probably not a good way to judge it. Back then, Broadcast.com was known by the people who were on the Web at that time. (Wow... 1999... I was still in University.) See ya > > 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. -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. charles @ reptile.ca supercanadian @ gmail.com developer weblog: http://ChangeLog.ca/ ___________________________________________________________________________ Make Television http://maketelevision.com/ ___________________________________________________________________________ Cars, Motorcycles, Trucks, and Racing... http://tirebiterz.com/
