just steeled myself to leave a slightly more measured and less capitalized version of that rant on Winer's blog.
in the other comments, kosso mentioned the possibility of inspiring copycats by screening these videos, which is an even more important reason not to show them. i realise that we all sometimes write and publish things that we haven't thought through properly, and we should give everybody the benefit of the doubt - but this seemed technically wrong, idiotic, unnecessarily harmful to the image of the tech and vlogging communities *and* lacking in compassion/humanity, so I think its OK to call him on it in strong terms. plus he's the opposite of an amateur newcomer and he says that he took it down and put it back up again while waiting for more news from NBC, so it wasn't unconsidered. Rupert On 19 Apr 2007, at 13:32, Rupert wrote: Bullshit Bullshit BULLSHIT tech piece, trying to find a tech angle that didn't need to be found. Maybe in order to justify writing about it on a tech blog. Wow, Dave, I didn't know that everyone who ever owned a video camera and shot home movies of themselves talking on it was a vlogger. Um, isn't the internet involved somehow? No? Then I know loads of vloggers! Cool, I should invite my dad to this group. He'd fit right in. Hm. What *is* a videoblog? Quote Doc Searls response: "We don't know if he thought about uploading them to YouTube. But, since he planned to fill the rest of his morning with murder, it's likely that he didn't want to post his plans on the Live Web -- where somebody might see it and get authorities to stop him. So he opted instead for snail mail and a big bang later on the small screen. YouTube would come, inevitably, later." Um. WWW.WHATEVER.DUDE Quote Winer: "In other words, vlogging comes to mass murder, in ways no one anticipated (or no one I know). It makes perfect sense, in a perfectly senseless way." Leaving aside the meaning of vlogging for a second... it COMES TO mass murder? COMES TO? WHAT???? Does it really make sense, Dave, does it REALLY? Quote Winer: "We're watching it on MSNBC now. It's amazing stuff. The videos are Quicktime files. NBC should release all of the videos in Quicktime form as downloads. It's wrong to withhold them." It's WRONG TO WITHOLD THEM? Why? Can you substantiate that intellectually AT ALL? Because it was this fucking guy's last wish, and we should honour that? In what way does anybody benefit from seeing it - and how do the families of the dead feel about it? Or, um, is it because you're getting a rush from listening to a real life psycho? COME ON, MAN. GROW UP. THINK. God, I can't believe I just got so wound up about this. As David Lynch would say, Bullshit. Fucking Bullshit. Rupert http://twittervlog.blogspot.com/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ On 19 Apr 2007, at 13:09, Steve Garfield wrote: Dave Winer wrote this post: "Vlogging comes to mass murder The Virginia Tech shooter sent a package of video and pictures to NBC. In other words, vlogging comes to mass murder, in ways no one anticipated (or no one I know)." http://scripting.com/ Share your thoughts with him. I did. --Steve -- Steve Garfield http://SteveGarfield.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
