Exactly Peter, ABC, is completely ignorant of the the potential of vidoe on the web and just replicating the sam ol' sh*t that worked on TV, but now's the chance to send a message and make a point. To clue big media in, and to help Amanda out.
Amanda, I knew you know what makes vlogs work, that's perhaps why I pushed so hard. I understand... you're working with a big player they probably don't care what you think... tradtionally you're just the personality, the pretty face on the screen, they're probably not used to their on air tallent telling their techies how to do their job. We got your back, just send them this way and we'll clue them in. BTW, I did notice you got your RSS feed up. Half the trouble is just that the page is a mess. And so is the RSS feed. The permalinks for example in the feed just link back to a generic ABC podcast overview page, this is utterly clueless. RSS feeds aren't just about aggregation they're about search and findability as well. The whole idea of the permalink is to tie the videos / podcasts back to the original post, the original show notes. Your vlog on ABC seems to have todays shownotes/ links... but I'll be damned if I know where they go after that. ABC should get a clue and just install a stock wordpress platform it'd do a thousand fold more for you. Videoblogging is not just a web page or a place holder it's a communications platform and untill ABC understands all the dozens of little things a blogging platform does and WHY they do it they shouldn't be trying to replicate it. I could go on and on about a dozen or more other blogging innivations that are extremely important like blogrolling, but the fact that ABC missed nearly every major one so obviously is just sad. Please be kick ass. Please take abc to geek girl camp 101 and kick their ass inline, because I've got to say, if you don't your going to pay the price in extremely low viewership because they are way, way off base. Heh, and if they'll only listen to someone they pay a lot of money, through my hat in the ring I do consulting. I know how to charge someone lots of money so they respect your opinion. Heh, sometimes it's the only way to get them to listen. :) -Mike mmeiser.com/blog mefeedia.com On 12/22/06, Peter Leppik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With any new medium it takes time for people to figure out what works. > > The first instinct (for those with experience in another medium) is > to just copy what worked in the old medium to the new. Early > television shows featured guys standing around mics doing radio drama. > > So I'm not terribly surprised that ABC's first instinct is to just > copy traditional television (badly) into a web page, complete with 30- > second ads. Give them time, and they'll figure it out--or else > someone else will figure it out, and Disney will acquire them to > merge the companies. But they're learning, in baby steps. > > -Peter > > Disclaimer: I don't know if the first TV shows really were guys doing > radio drama, but I heard it once and it sounded truthy. Also, I > can't get Amanda's ABC show to play, so I have no idea if the pre- > roll ads everyone's complaining about are 30 seconds long or not. > > On Dec 22, 2006, at 10:16 AM, Mike Meiser wrote: > > > Howdy, I read through pretty much all the posts on new Amanda show on > > ABC. Who can blame me for not reading them all there were well over > > 100 all told. > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
