Yeah I think the 'personal videos are boring rubbish' stuff is an opinion that some have had and will continue to have, although I heard it more in the past, and it came up on this list more in the firt few years the way I remember it - maybe the success of youtube changed some peoples minds.
As for whether the aggregation side has failed, videopodcasting etc, well I wish there were more figures to go by. Certainly Im not convinced this stuff has gone mainstream anymore than podcasting really has, nor is there an absolute guarauntee that it will. Still as Video On Demand becomes more prevalent in the living room through cable TV etc, the general concept of content being delivered to you automatically and sitting on a device waiting for you to watch it, seems almost certain to be some reasonable chunk of the future of media? I find it hard to get an accurate picture really. I dont know how many people are walking round with ipods, psp's etc with subscribed vlogs on them. I expected to see more video aggregator software appear to indicate that that stuff had exploded, but there are very few, especially relative to the number of browser-based-video sites. And even though I have PSP and video ipod, I find I am really old fashioned and am still most often watching peoples stuff by manually surfing to their site. For me personally it seems to be working out that if I dont have time or enthusiam to remember to visit a site, I dont have desire or time to watch it offline automatically aggregated either. Hopefully Im abnormal on that front and this stuff will blossom, Id still bet on it rather than against it. Still its all progress I guess, the views that started this thread may seem out of date but in the context of the early days when people like Adam Curry didnt think video a particularily interesting marriage for RSS, opinion has come on a bit. I still wonder a lot about the masses and personal new video - found several people at work today who didnt know what I was going on about when I said 'youtube' until I said 'that company that google bought for mega$'. Either way I guess only a catastrophic loss of internet infrastrucure/bandwidth, electriciy, or new extremely silly laws, can stop video on the internets now! Cheers Steve Elbows --- In [email protected], "Frank Sinton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Recently, I am receiving feedback that is just the opposite - that > videoblogging is taking off as people are tiring of the "funny video > on my cat" viral video content. > > -Frank > > Frank Sinton > CEO, Mefeedia > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.mefeedia.com - 2,182,387 episodes from 22,754 video feeds > across 13,561 websites > Our blog: http://mefeedia.com/blog > > --- In [email protected], "Heath" <heathparks@> wrote: > > > > Provocative?!....please...everyday there is someone > saying 'vlogging' > > is a failure or who wants to watch people talk to cameras....2 > guys > > leave a comment on a TechCrunch blog, who cares? does anyone on > this > > list care what some guy named "Erik" and some guy whose company > helps > > you "outsourse" your business thinks? (btw, someone should tell > Mr. > > David Scott Lewis, that "outsourcing" is soooo 2005, the term > > is "smart sourcing" takes the "sting" out of losing your job and > > makes it sound better to shareholders, you didn't outsorce, you > smart > > sourced, see?) > > > > I vlog cause I wanna vlog, watch if you want, don't if you > > don't....If I was worried about numbers, I'd dress in a biniki and > do > > the news..... > > > > ;) > > > > Heath > > http://batmangeek7.blogspot.com > > > > --- In [email protected], "Jan McLaughlin" > > <jannie.jan@> wrote: > > > > > > Oh, the nasty kids are in the playground again... > > > > > > Tut-tut. > > > > > > Jan > > > > > > On 3/19/07, Michael Schaap <michael@> wrote: > > > > > > > > FYI > > > > > > > > In the comments on a short TechCrunch review > > (http://tinyurl.com/2bcqx5) > > > > about VLIP i > > > > read the following provocative statements: > > > > > > > > 'Erick' writes: > > > > > > > > "Unless a person is at least the slightest bit entertaining, > > Vlogging > > > > stinks. I dont want to > > > > look at some weirdo sitting at home/work talking into a webcam > > about their > > > > lame day or > > > > skill or opinion. If you arent as entertaining as Ze Frank, > then > > you stink > > > > and nobody wants > > > > to hear/see you..." > > > > > > > > and David Scott Lexis writes: > > > > > > > > "Video blogs have been a failure, as I noted in a couple of > > AlwaysOn > > > > Network columns. > > > > Videos are one thing; automatically downloading video blogs > (or > > video > > > > podcasts; I prefer > > > > "video podcasts") is too bandwidth intensive, too slow, takes > up > > too much > > > > hard disk space. > > > > > > > > You want to leave your computer on all night to download video > > podcasts? > > > > Well, good for > > > > you but you're in the minority. How many video podcasts have > > been > > > > successful? Do any > > > > have over 10,000 subscribers to their feed? > > > > > > > > Compare and contrast with "standard" blogs such as this one. > > Matter of > > > > fact, are there > > > > any video podcasts that have even 1% of the subscribers that > > TechCrunch > > > > has? None that > > > > I'm aware of, and in my public blogroll I subscribe to a lot ( > > > > http://www.bloglines.com/ > > > > public/DSL). > > > > > > > > Mind you, this might be a decent idea, but until bandwidth, > hard > > disk > > > > space and all sorts > > > > of other limitations are overcome (like the need for better > and > > easier > > > > production > > > > techniques), it will remain a novelty for the SXSW crowd (and > > they're not > > > > early adopters, > > > > they're "way-too-early adopters"; in the 70's they would have > > been touting > > > > the wonders of > > > > AI). > > > > > > > > BTW, I still subscribe to several video podcasts for my iPod. > But > > I > > > > suspect that I'm in the > > > > minority; I know very few people outside of the Bay area who > > subscribe to > > > > more than a few > > > > (if any) and I don't know anyone in China (where I currently > > live) who > > > > subscribes to any > > > > not even one. YouTube, thumbs up; video blogs & video > podcasts, > > thumbs > > > > down (too > > > > early). > > > > > > > > Remember, so-called and self-anointed pioneers usually wind up > > with arrows > > > > in their > > > > back. Besides, how many people really have good "TV"/video > > presence? Not a > > > > lot. Good > > > > podcasters are a subset of good bloggers, but good vloggers > are a > > subset > > > > of good > > > > podcasters: That's a tiny set..." > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > The Faux Press - better than real > > > http://fauxpress.blogspot.com > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > >
