Well said Rupert. Good reasons to eliminate competition and snark from my life. Snark and competition (winners / losers) are the psychological equivalents of car wrecks: it's nearly impossible not to look. I'm working to develop the capacity to turn my head away.
"Advertisers are a bit more reluctant to trust the user-generated stuff. > They feel better aligned with the professional stuff, and that is driving a > lot of these changes," says Burst CEO Jarvis Coffin. > No doubt advertisers are 'reluctant' to support user-generated content. They're reluctant because they're frightened that users will speak the truth. Producers are similarly frightened to speak the truth and perhaps offend audiences and advertisers. Advertisers and producers and the audiences who can't turn their heads away from accidents belong together. As I've said before, advertising is flawed since by its nature, it fosters a culture of hyperbole and lies. At least when you're advertising multi-national corporations it leads to those things. The alternatives are micropayments for things like news and investigative journalism, and geocentric advertising in support of small business. I think $2,500 is fair for a one-minute commercial distributed widely on the web. If you can produce two or three of those things a month you can make a decent living, no? XO, Jan On 11/21/07, Rupert Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They can't write, "Look, wow, video is online" anymore, so they have > to find a new angle in order to justify the article. There's much > more slickly produced content online now than last time old media > 'discovered' online video. Now it's time to revisit and see what's > changed. > > In editors' and journalists' minds, there has to be change and > conflict to interest the reader. For an article about a changing scene > to be interesting, someone has to win and someone has to lose. So if > there's more slick video content online now, it must be at the expense > of the 'user generated' content. > > Print journalist teams are being cut back and cut back. They can't > sell enough papers. And yet they stick with the same tired old > formula. A versus B. Good luck, idiots, as you write yourselves into > unemployment. > > The good news is that we have room for subtlety and truth in online > text and video, because we're not working within the confines of a > limited print space or TV schedule. > > Rupert > > --- In [email protected], Kenya Allmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The article looks like propaganda to steer advertisers away from > indy content to me. > -- The Faux Press - better than real http://feeds.feedburner.com/diaryofafauxjournalist - RSS http://fauxpress.blogspot.com http://wburg.tv aim=janofsound air=862.571.5334 skype=janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
