On Mar 19, 2007, at 4:21 PM, Gena wrote: > > Good vlogs are not easy to find for novice users. You have to > have the > > right players on the system. Bandwidth issues. And even if you send > > them the link they are too embarrassed to tell you they don't > know how > > to view the video.
Maybe it's time for another round of effort from this community to "solve" this. Blip is working to promote videoblogs/shows that host on their site and (with huge buttons) get people to subscribe using a player. Network2 just had a video contest soliciting video submissions that explain to people how to watch video on the internet.... so a lot of different things have been done, yet I totally agree with you Gena -- this is a big issue. People do flock to YouTube in part because it's easy to use and easy to surf. A zillion media companies are all trying to be the next hot mix of YouTube and __(fill in any television channel here)__. What are other ways to crack this nut? Freevlog solved the problem of teaching people how to videoblog on mass. And Node 101, all the workshops and classes we've all been teaching. What does it mean for us all to work on the issue of teaching people how to find and watch as hard as we worked on teaching people to vlog. How can we educate people to fluently use / consume / watch / comment / participate -- even when they have no inclination to create their own videoblog. Or as Irina would ask "how can you teach my mother to watch videoblogs?" If the videoblogging community could virally go all at this issue, posting videos, creating a wing of freevlog, explaining how to use your iPod to watch video, how to find videoblogs, how to use an Apple TV, how to hook up a PC to a TV, etc etc -- we could transform this and tip the scales in favor of independent shows / free floating videoblogs (not on a network) / lots and lots of tools and spaces. Jen [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
