Ease of use, maybe? Setting up a podcast, audio or video, is just irritating, becasue everyone has some different angle on how to do it. There's something to be said for a format. Yeah, we can argue about individuality and wanting something better until the cows come home. Also, the expressive, personal, non-promotional crowd might not be one of the best to ask this to...
Being part of a 'place' where you have an audience and can be seen? Ewww, stinky answer. Well maybe Current.tv might take a lesson from 'em. On the meter of person, micro, and mass media, I think YouTube fits between the micro and mass marks. I'd be curious if anyone who is a regular YouTuber even cares about people going to their own site? Or, maybe contextually, their myspace? And even then, everyone else is there. At least I know other mySpaces went through the same process as me. Same with YouTube. And ah, yes, the comments. Get popular enough or cover something that has a wide appeal, and the comments, that concentric circle 'conversation' (ask Amanda about that) gets vicious. I'm doing a new show, I'm getting paid to vlog, it's pretty sweet. But honestly, it's on a topic that has a wide appeal, no matter how punky hippie I make it. I have to be mentally prepared to face the legions head on, and be willing to say, hey, you know what, I'm not interested in your conversation. YouTube represents the flipside-- it's the mass reality of everday people fitting snugly into that mode that the idealist inside of us despises. It slapped RSS in the face, by debunking our ideals of 'ohhh i wanna take it wiiiith meeeeee'. Apparently, that didn't seem to be the case for a little part of the population. So, we ignore it, we embrace it, or we lock and load and pull on some iron fists. It's more anarchy than democracy, but hey, both movements can have little flags and berets. Power! ER --- In [email protected], "Peter Van Dijck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've always been interested in why young people prefer to post on > youtube & myspace versus on their own (video)blog (for the comments of > course!) - in this group we seem to think having your own vlog is much > superior. > > But today I realized: my photos are on flickr, instead of having my > own instance of some opensource script like Gallery - for the > community aspect (and the superior functionality), so isn't that the > same? > > Just a thought. > P > > -- > Find 10000s of videoblogs and podcasts at http://mefeedia.com > my blog: http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/ > my job: http://petervandijck.net >
