It was me that mentioned David Lynch, and I didnt mean it was my favorite video of vlogweek because I didnt even chck to see if it was a part of vlogweek or not.
I wouldnt know how to choose a favorite video from vlogweek, Ive seen loads I loved and yet I probably only watched 4% of the videos that have been made so far. It may only take a week for people to post them but its going to take me a year to watch them all I think! So for me personally Im just happy with anybody who draws attention to videobloggingweek existing, let people find the sites that are trying to aggregate all the weeks videos, and explore for themselves. But highlighting a few videos in particular can bring wider awareness to the concept in general and rub off on others, so in the context of vlogweek you wont hear me moaning about 'highlights' or favorites etc. The thig about 'Videoblogging isnt just a Yahoo!Group', is that I cant find anybody who disagree's with that. I doubt for example that the most of the videos used in Rocketboom are made by people in this Yahoo group? I dunno, when people talk about the yahoo group, do they mean something else really? If we assume there is some sort of collection of videoblogs that are much better known than most, not all of those are done by people with a regular voice on this group. And then theres the wider blog stuff, I still havent really got what the whole 'A-list bloggers' thing is, Im tending to think there are multiple different A-lists that emerge around particular subcultures in the blogosphere. So I am unsure whether an a-list of marketing/technology/web2 type bloggers can actually be used as a very wide benchmark for determining what is well-known. I dunno, I think the whole argument about yahoo group elitism should be laid to rest this year unless people can occasionally come up with specific examples of elitism, favoritism, nepotism or whatever else is being hinted at. Show me somebody espousing those views, or explain the way that services, sites, popular shows, blogs,etc, can re-inforce some sickly status-quo that keeps the masses down and just re-trumpets the hype of the already visible shows. Cos at the end of the day what I love about the net and video is that these sorts of things are way less likely to cause problems, because the very structure and systems allow us to bypass the mistakes of listening to the same old gatekeepers, promoters, etc. Can listen to them if we want, but doesnt matter if we dont, I find most of the stuff I want through personal recommendations or from searching for stuff thats used tags and other metadata appropriately. Heh I hope everybody becomes famous and then it will cancel out and nobody will be famous, or something. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In [email protected], "Harold Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Lemme re-phrase that. I am allowed to retract/re-phrase, right? Forget I > said anything; Rocketboom's alright and you work hard on it, Drew. Just > hoping to see some new vlogs make "The List" for once...I dig how a friend > put it recently: "Videoblogging isn't just a Yahoo!Group..." > > On 4/5/07, Harold Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I echo David Lynch on your choice of a favorite... > > > > On 4/5/07, andrew michael baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > This Friday on Rocketboom we are going to highlight a video from > > > Videoblogging week 2007. > > > > > > We asked people to find their favorites and then leave the link(s) to > > > the video in the comments section today. > > > > > > And/or you can vote on your favorite one there in the comments. > > > > > > http://www.rocketboom.com/stories/rb_07_apr_05 > > > > > > It would be great to get your feedback here. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Drew > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
