oh! Something I heard very interesting on a podcast the other day. A columnist from a traditional newspaper said his most controversial column, I believe it was something about reclaiming his subaru and other aspects of his life from gay culture and metrosexuals... LOL to the concept. Only got him 200 emails!
This is a twice weekly columnist who's been around for years. This came up in the podcast because many audio podcasters are lamenting thei abysmal amount of comments they get on their podcast episodes. By comparison I think we vloggers do a WHOLE lot better than audio podcasters at getting feedback. One of the reasons is the video format has evolved to be generally very short form... and requires undivided attention... most vlogs ARE viewed online... most podcasts are passive and long format (30 minutes average and coming down quickly) and are a much more likely to be listened to while offline where the blog isn't accessible. I believe this to be at least partly to a fundamental misconception of audio podcasters that podcasting is more like radio then blogging. I believe this was perpetuated in the early days by and still now by Adam Curry among others who've picked up the cause. And I believe that the worst example of this is that iTunes far and away the most popular audio podcasting aggregator still doesn't have permalinks that allow easy and direct access to the original blog post for follow up. I think because video blogging has culturally and technically alligned itself much more directly to the blogging culture from hence it came then television or other traditional media that we have retained quite a large amount of the benifits in granularity, accessibility and interactivity that was learned from blogging. I think video blogging has for this reason, among other more specific things (youtube) really surpased audio podcasting when audio podcasting would have seemed to have more initial potential because of it's portability. I could go on about this portability vs. accessibility debate, but I've said enough for now. Make love not page views! In 2006 that videobloggers were like a hug fest hippy commune in coparison to audio podcasting events... We know that to be not true... but I'm glad to see we haven't completely become all about the money. Now shut up and show me the money! :P -Mike mmeiser.com/blog mefeedia.com On 7/5/07, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i try to record all hugs on my phone camera, but I can't legally > guarantee that i'll catch every one. > > i was only saying to trine last week that a much more revealing way > of looking at what's happened with twittervlog over the last 3 months > would be to look at the comments and interaction instead of views. > > make love not stats :D > > R > > On 5 Jul 2007, at 17:33, Markus Sandy 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] > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
