On 3/19/07, Michael Schaap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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).
Interesting note... but then I don't know what the CPM (cost per
thousand views) or CPM (costs per click) is on ads on tech crunch's
blog... but I I'm pretty sure it's $2 - $5 cpm if even that. Whereas a
video CPM is generally about $50 to even $80. The point is
irregardless of how far my numbers are off comparing subscribership on
a video feed versa a blog feed is bunk. It's apples and oranges.
Again... the guy is an idiot. :)
>
> 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..."
>
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