Although my vlog's initial intent was to capture a personal video diary, I do share it online with family and friends or others that may stumble across it (stumble to vlog.mikemoon.net). Currently I have about 25 regular viewers, and a small handful of those get involved by leaving comments. I'm happy with my little circle of visitors and not sure I would want to have 3,000 voyeurs.
As far as the limitation of the subject matter I vlog about? I just have to remind myself that my mom and my 12 year old daughter are frequent visitors. Paranoid? Nah... I'm Canadian, we rarely piss people off. :) Mike --- In [email protected], "R. Kristiansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.textrecontext.com > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
