Well, don't thank me too much... I plugged it in passing at the end of a video about something else entirely.
I'm at a wedding this weekend and am missing all the meet up fun - oh well. If anyone wants to make a "note to self" for '08 (cough, splutter, yes....) I would say that, of the people on YouTube who post personal vlog-style content (and putting aside anyone's feelings about the people who post skateboarding dogs and or leave angry comments...) I suspect that few of them are particularly invested in the idea of pushing forward personal-video as a medium, so much as simply getting their personal opinons out there (compare, say, people who just get on with using their operating system versus people who actively advocate for Linux). There is, for example, a fairly robust back and forth on YouTube at the moment between aethists and - ahem - faith-based video makers. A much more lively video conversation than you might imagine if you can't see past the skateboarding dogs..... That being the case, I'm not sure myself what the "point" of videobloggingweek is *to* someone on YouTube. And I'm not saying that in a negative way, just in a "well, what's in it for them..." thinking-out-loud sort of way... The best I can come up with off the top of my head is "get your stuff seen by more people...." (which is, for sure, something a lot of YouTube users can relate to....). Given that YouTube is an effective platform for the people who use it, what's the elevator pitch for '08? Just pondering... Cheers MD http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv http://www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
