On 1/11/07, 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?
This gives me an interesting thought. What if we could force the audience to be as visible to the content producer as the content producer is to them. I.E. what if in the context of a webservice like blip, or mefeedia or youtube... we could make your vlog only available to YOUR subscribers... and through the subscription mechanism make the viewership completely transparent to each other. You would of course need atleast SOME videos completely public othewise how would anyone be able to find you. You might also gain the ability to make your vlog invite only or even blacklist certain viewers. It may seem the same thing as a private yahoo or flickr group, but not exactly.. . because it's a new perspective. Furthermore what if we could apply this concept to the open vlogosphere. What if you could "bless" certain subscribers with full access to your personal conent.... or even better pick and choose from amongst your subscribers whom gets to see a certain post. This would require a bit more two way of an RSS mechanism. Perhaps the key is requiring people to signup to your wordpress vlog and then giving them a unique feed. That way you might be able to track everything from who was watching what to who they are and what comments they were making... a whole sort of communications system that could simultaneously be open and closed on a very granular post by post person by person basis. Best of all this would not change things for the general public... they would see an RSS feed and a blog just like they always have, perhaps not even realizing that there's a whole host of private information not available to them. The key to this idea is in exploring the vast amount of space between explicit person to to person communications systems like a phone call, and the very open non-explicit communications like blogging. Some systems like Flickr already have primitive implimentations of this. I find this extremely interesting because I'm a firm believer in the idea that henceforth their will be an increasingly fluid line between explicit personal communications and so called "shows" with audiences in the hundreds of thousands even millions. I RELISH that idea that though the majoritity of my blog posts may be read by less than 100 people that... or my videos watched by less then 100... that if I capture on video some pivitol even like a police tasering, or a freak natural occurance, or god knows what... that my platform could scale literally overnight bringing my words, thoughts, ideas, or footage to hundreds of thousands or millions. It's in fact the sign of a healthy and fluid communications space. So the question is can that same communications plaform that can reach a potentially infinite public also be honed to target a very explicit few... say a few friends, or immediate family. Ultimately blogging and vlogging has rested on obscurity to do this. For example... to pick on Andy Carvin... if the pictures in his photo feed or blog feed were of cats and babies I figured pretty much they werent' for me... and skipped right over them... but if they were of vloggers and web luminaries i jumped right in and watched or read them. The point is the demands of my time ensured that I skipped over things weren't meant for me. Of course such security through obscurity while great for the vast majority of very low level communications is will not even slow down a trol or worse from digging through your history. Peace, -Mike mefeedia.com mmeiser.com/blog > Best, > > Raymond M. Kristiansen, > Copenhagen > http://www.dltq.org/v3 > http://www.textrecontext.com > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
