it's interesting though how this list has changed.. when I first joined, the threads were shorter and the conversations were done on video and there was less text. whatever happened to that.
awards seem strange for personal media to me also. awards/more people seem to lead to increased business-like behaviour, a more traditional mail list and less video conversations? are they all on utube now in video responses perhaps. On 7/24/07, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, I know what you mean - I'm not a huge fan of awards shows > either (except when I win lots of money by betting on the Oscars), > but I don't like the idea of community awards - I'd rather they were > handled by Podtech (or whoever) and treated honestly for what they are. > > Whatever community love Irina brought to the table, that thing you > quoted from the wiki just goes to show that Awards Shows are pretty > much a commercial concept at heart. They're not a level-playing-field > community thing to reward individuals for individual artistic > achievement. > > Popular shows win, because they get more votes. Popular shows tend > to be commercial show concepts rather than, say, personal > videoblogs. So in the end the main benefactors of awards are popular > shows who can then put up banners saying "Winner of 5 vloggies" and > tell that to their viewers and the press. That might help Ask A > Ninja or Galacticast or Ze Frank who benefit from being seen by the > maximum number of people because they have mass appeal. > > Personally, i don't feel that if I won an award (best shouting into a > cellphone camera on the streets of London?) it would boost my > audience in any lasting way, since the very few people who want to > watch and subscribe to some british tit shouting into his phone over > the internet are pretty much going to find me anyway. > > I like my community to be without judgement and ranking. I don't > want my community to tell me that there's some other london cellphone > shouter they like more than me, or to tell that person that they like > me more. What does that mean? It probably means the winner was able > to marshal more friends and family to go online and vote. > > So I'd prefer it if we didn't have a community awards. I'm quite > happy for Podtech and the corporate mass-appeal boys and girls to do > their commercial Awards thing and compete for promotional > opportunities, while the rest of us just get on with making our > videos and connecting with people, for whatever bizarre reasons. > Then if any awards drop out of the sky, it's easier to accept them > while taking a moment to be humble enough to know that it doesn't > mean we're the best at anything - just that some people voted. > > Rupert > http://twittervlog.tv > > > On 24 Jul 2007, at 14:06, Michael Verdi wrote: > > Personally, I don't like the idea of an awards show at all. Last year > I tried to argue that point but it was clear that so many people [snip] -- http://www.aliak.com
