Putting perhaps a slightly different spin on this, I really like the term "The Audience of Ten" (great term!) and the idea of treating the audience like they are ten of your best friends is a great approach to building and maintaining your audience. I think one of the reasons shows like Rocketboom, Homestarrunner and Ze Frank's The Show connect with an audience is that their viewers feel like they part of a cool little clique/community.
On the subject of censoring yourself I think it's not a bad idea to be careful to hold certain, personal things back. For example, anyone ever had the experience of a viewer/reader of their vlog/blog turn up at their home? I had that happen once (a reader of my blog showed up at my front door one morning after getting my address in the phone book). They were very nice, but that spooked me in to getting an unlisted number. - Andrew jonny goldstein wrote: > Raymond, if you really want to do it for your ten best friends, then > password protect it. But I get the feeling that you don't want to be > that closed, that you value having people outside your immediate > circle of close friends seeing your videos. Maybe certain, very > personal videos you could individually password protect? I, > personally, feel comfortable with whoever is lurking out there > watching my stuff, but I censor myself to maintain that comfort > level.This is an interesting question. It's really a new thing to be > able to put stuff out there for the whole world to see.I don't think > there's any reason to let everyone in on your life if you dont want to. > > --- In [email protected] > <mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com>, Philip Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > I don't care who's watching, but then again I'm a bit of a pervert. > > > > xo philip > > -- > > http://swordfight.org <http://swordfight.org> > > http://hotaction.ca <http://hotaction.ca> > > http://destroyhotaction.com <http://destroyhotaction.com> > > > > > > On 11-Jan-07, at 9:56 PM, R. Kristiansen wrote: > > > > > Hey all, > > > > > > Since I started videoblogging, I have had this mantra about > > > focusing on "the > > > audience of ten". To treat the audience of my videoblog as a circle of > > > friends. Friends I would want to show what's going on in my life at > > > the > > > point. I have had this mantra because I, for instance, did not want > > > to get > > > lost in some numbers-increasing schemes. > > > > > > My question to you is: What amount of subscribers do you feel > > > "comfortable" > > > with? > > > > > > Of course, if you make a Show (insert sarcastic tone here), you > > > only want > > > more and more subscribers. But if you make a so-called personal > > > videoblog, > > > suddenly having 3000 subscribers might be a very scary thing. > > > > > > Me, I know that the amount of people who have technically > > > subscribed to my > > > feed is about 120. I must admit that even that number makes me feel > > > the > > > goosebumps sometimes. (Ok, I have a history of receiving nasty emails > > > referring to videos I made as well, so I guess my personal paranoia is > > > linked to that). > > > > > > If you are an individual who just make videos because you want to > > > connect > > > with others - do you sometimes feel that someone invide your > > > privacy? If > > > they leave nasty comments? > > > > > > Of course, many of the same issues dealing with text blogging or the > > > internet itself applies to the videoblog. Things like: "If you > > > don't want > > > certain people to find it, don't put it out there". That's simple. But > > > still, we want to connect. Reach out. > > > > > > Am I nuts for feeling uncomfortable about the anonymous people > > > lurking, > > > watching my videos of ____________? Or does anyone else feel the same? > > > > > > Does this sort of paranoia lead to many of us posting less personal > > > stuff > > > and more often going for the more "safe" forms of videoblogging?S > > > > > > What do you think? > > > > > > Best, > > > > > > Raymond M. Kristiansen, > > > Copenhagen > > > http://www.dltq.org/v3 <http://www.dltq.org/v3> > > > http://www.textrecontext.com <http://www.textrecontext.com> > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.1.410 / Virus Database: 268.16.9/623 - Release Date: 1/11/2007 > > -- Andrew Creative Director, The World's Angriest Puppets Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.angrypuppets.com Blog: puppetvision.blogspot.com
