Interestingly I found at the top of diggs tech area a post that relates to the issue with MyHeavy:
http://digg.com/tech_news/MySpace_Gets_Goatse_d (Warning, goatse image linked in article) The blog entry referred to is at: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000278.html In the blog article Jason Scott uses the funny incident of replacing his grim reaper image with goatse to go into stages of development as the internet is popularized. The analogy of time in air flight where everyone could be a pilot (know how to fly a simple plane) to the present when few pilots compare to many passengers is given. It's related to in September 2003 when AOL opened it's user base to the internet and a relatively small and civil organization that assimilated smoothly new users to experts changed to a mass of newbies to a much smaller group of internet techies. We're probably at a similar transition stage where there are many casual viewers and uploaders on YouTube and a smaller, but still influential group of experts, us, setting standards and best practices. Companies and people are coming in, but not fully established, and there's an opportunity to set methods and standards that can benefit everyone who wants to make good use of video on the net. In matter of time the number of established companies and larger population of users with their established methods will no longer be influenced. -- Enric -======- http://www.cirne.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Van Dijck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some people have mentioned that the anger many of us feel is somehow > unjustified or dumb. > > I do feel real *anger* when I see this? And I think many of us do. > Why? I've been thinking about that. > > When I see a company "stealing" my video, putting their ads on it, not > respecting with attribution or linkbacks, I get angry. I don't think > it's because someone is profiting of my work. It's more like, they are > *breaking* this new world we are trying to build. They are going > against the reason why we are doing all of this, a possibility of a > future where we do own our media, at least part of it. > > And since it's earlly days still, I think we HAVE to shout out about > this. We have to make a fuzz. We have to sue, if necessary. If not, > 100s of other companies will do the same. We have to set the rules, or > they will set them, and that won't be good. And that's why it's good > to get angry. Because it makes us take the time to send that email, > although we know we won't get a response, to write that blogpost, > although it's just a blogpost, to digg that digglink, and so on. > > Peter > > -- > Find 10000s of videoblogs and podcasts at http://mefeedia.com > my blog: http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/ > my job: http://petervandijck.net >
