I always have the overwhelming urge to hug Richard and his wife since he said he wanted to hug everyone at the end of vloggercon 2006, but I don't think I've ever given you a hug markus. Be forewarned next time I see you I'm going to walk up and give you a hug.
I think meaningful intelligible comments by people I know are still the greatest indicator. Though I love it when people just say "I like" or favorite or say "I wuz here" too. The greatest benifits however are the "overwhelming intangibles" though. I think it was Bill Streeter who I heard use that term to describe why conferences are so important. These reasons so best as I can describe them have been termed "social capital" and I ramble about them way to often though not recently. I could spend a life time trying to quantify them... and many are, but all I can do here in a few words is try and explain the spirit of the idea. Social capital to me means having amazing conversations with people on topics I love and that interest me and them... that without blogging, videoblogging, and mailing lists I would not even know... let alone be able to share such common long tail interests. My theory being that all those things we hold most dear and valueable are in the long tail. Somepeople like the universality of talking about mainstream sports or music. Me... my favorite subjects to discuss over a beer are urban planning, new media theory, psychology, social capital and a whole lot more... and virtually NONE of them would ever come up in the course of conversation were it not for blogging, videoblogging, photo blogging, twitter, and mailing lists. Sometimes this is refered to as the rise of geek culture, the long tail, the deep end of the think pool... dave winer's new book "everything is miscelanous" sums it up well too. But i like to think of it this way... the message of the internet and all internet related media is the deccentralization of culture and there for an exponential growth of **capacity** for culture and all the things I love... dorky DIY robot stuff... pictures and video of family and friends being dorks... cat videos... you name it. Hoorah for it all! I'm sorry, but that's my best andwer and absolutely none of this has anything to do with making money, statistically trackable and quantifiable data, LisaNova, or making it big on youtube. What it all comes down to for me is forms of meaningful conversation. Digg's thumbs up... is the departing point. Tagging is the departing point. Rating on the 1-5 point is DEAD to me. And youtube's page views are primitive at best. I aim to quantify or make qualitative something far more profound as I'm sure do we all. The best indicators we have currently are... people who've dugg, tagged, bookmarked, commented on and above all revlogged, remixed, and shared our videos. The meme is the new god for now. And we've yet to understand how to quantify it. Peace, -Mike (rambling mike) mmeiser.com/blog mefeedia.com On 7/5/07, Markus Sandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > don't forget hugs > > i've gotten some great hugs cause of my site :) > > schlomo hugs count X2 > > difficult stat to track and compare > > anyone got a hug counter widget? > > On Jul 5, 2007, at 9:21 AM, Frank Sinton wrote: > > > "Views" on a video is just like pageviews - pretty static stat. I > > would think some more telling stats would be: > > > > 1) Subscribers to our vlog > > 2) %/# of Return viewers (how many people have watched more than 1 > > of your videos). > > > > Does Feedburner help to track these statistics? > > > -- > http://tools.ourmedia.org/blog > http://SpinXpress.com/Markus_Sandy > http://Ourmedia.org/Markus_Sandy > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
