Let's see if Justin from Justin tv is still around in a year, the tech is exciting but far from mainstream, far from it.
Heath http://batmangeek.com --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], sull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Of course it is exciting and has its place in the mix of networked media. > > It is amazing how fast all things video have progressed in just about 2 > years. > I suppose i expected most of it.... and i recall some early discussions on > this list by doubters who said nothing big will happen for at least 5 > years.... then the online video boom began. > > Live streaming is certainly not any sort of replacement or even a comparable > form of distribution to progressive downloads and archived media. But it is > just as powerful and necessary, primarily for communication (which bleeds > into entertainment). For journalists alone, it is huge. Art making... > maybe less so. > > I'm not sure how practical the technology is right now, but its fun to see > the experimentation being done. > Justin.TV is obviously for making a point and to demonstate what is > possible... but nobody is going to walk around with a fat camera on the hat > like that. > > Oh yeah, its all kind of freaky too ;) > > sull > > On 4/13/07, Ryan Ozawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Steve Garfield experimented with live vlogging with his Nokia phone > > earlier > > this month. Justin Kan of Justin.TV is walking around San Francisco with a > > camera strapped to his head and EVDO cards in his backpack for continuous > > live video. And last night, Chris Pirillo had Ustream.TV, Robert Scoble's > > Twitter might, and a blogger across the border to pull together a live > > report on the Mexico City Earthquake: > > > > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4502606569188610270&hl=en > > > > Of course, folks were more excited by the technology than the > > earthquake... > > agog over the implications for news distribution and citizen journalism. > > From the energy that collided in Pirillo's show, it's chear the simmering > > potential is there. Scoble is going to do his own live-from-phone coverage > > of a conference next week. > > > > Periodic and archived video is vital -- after all, someone had to record > > Pirillo's live show to re-live it today! -- but it looks like pervasive > > "live" video, lifestreaming, whatever you want to call it, is here a lot > > sooner than most would've predicted. > > > > Ryan > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
