Hey, Andrew, I show up at vloggers' houses all the time. Moreover, I expect them to dine and hang out with me and then read me bedtime stories.
Road Node 101 kicks. XO, Jan P.S. Of course, I let 'em know I'm coming in advance. On 1/12/07, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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] <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com> > > <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] <andrew%40angrypuppets.com> > Web: www.angrypuppets.com > Blog: puppetvision.blogspot.com > > > -- The Faux Press - better than real http://fauxpress.blogspot.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
