On 2/19/07, Jan McLaughlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can make blogger blogs "public" or accessable only by "authors" or by > "only people I choose". > > Is that enough?
No, not good enough. I think the closes we've come is yahoo groups, or flickr groups. You can invite a bunch of members and speak directly to them. Email. I need to keep thinking about it. -Mike > Jan > > On 2/19/07, Mike Meiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > -- > The Faux Press - better than real > http://fauxpress.blogspot.com > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
