For all its faults, and whilst its used for many other things as well, youtube and that recent youtube meetup indicate to me that the personal is not going to go away.
Im not sure its something the majority will come to do, Im not sure how sustainable people who do it find it. How many abandoned blogs are there, let alone vlogs? But this seems quite normal, like writing a diary everybody isnt going to do it all of the time. Maybe in the future it will be one of those new years resolutions lots of people make and then break within a week or 2 :D I hope & suspect that although we have not seen a total revolution in this area yet, that people and video on the internet, is going to create a lot of communities of one kind or another, and much of that experience will be personal. Who knows if it will become some sort of replacement for the old type of communities that are largely based on geographical location, something that, like th extended family, has been on the deline in quite a lot of countries in recent decades. Im also interested in where we think 'personal' ends. Theres long been an idea that consumer created media means lots of people are going to post videos showing how much they love product x, and this is a potential marketing wet dream becuase it has 'authenticity' and doesnt require burntout ad & marketing creatives to have to keep coming up with their own material so much. So far we have seen relatively limited examples of this stuff happening, it seems like it will work for some products but its not clear how large the consumer uptake will be yet. So anyways a mass produced product & associated marketing may be about as impersonal as you can get, but in the hands of an actual peron, how personal does the resulting video become? Cheers Steve Elbows --- In [email protected], "Heath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, you do things for yourself, but isn't a part of our nature to > connent with others? Isn't that why we seek out those you share our > intrest's and beliefs'? If no one but you vlogged, would you still do > it? > > I have only questions right now..... > Heath > http://batmangeek7.blogspot.com >
