Mark, you rock. Nice plug.
On 1 Apr 2007, at 23:14, Steve Watkins wrote: I'll thank you too much as I see youve posted a whole video about the week now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF-X7lNsaOU So... thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you and thank you! Steve Elbows --- In [email protected], "Mark Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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] > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
