I find his article interesting but he wasn't wrong before. The content game isn't over. It won't be until we run out of humans. Sure there are people creating free content but that will only go so far. People thirst for mo' better content and those who know how to deliver more will soon have all the tools in place so that they can create and get paid for it. But that will change and change again.
People will pay for content but there will be new models for it. Content, the way we create it and sell it will always change. There will always be new models and there will always be kids who get upset because "Things" don't seem right or fair. When I was a kid TV was Free and so was water but now I pay over $100 per month for cable TV and maybe about the same for water (if I add up all those bottles that I buy while I'm out roaming the streets of Pasadena.) I grew up in Florida and fireworks were illegal there but that didn't stop my neighbor Bruce from buying firecrackers in South Carolina or Tennessee one Summer and selling me a package for a dollar. Now I was an enterprising young kid and I bought a few packs from Bruce and I waited until he had sold out and all the kids in the neighborhood had blown their fireworks. I then separated the packs I had bought from Bruce and started selling single firecrackers for a dollar a piece. When Bruce found out that I was selling my one dollar packs for $20 he was furious. He started crying and told me that I could sell my firecrackers for a dollar a stick. He said I was wrong and I had to stop. I sad no way. Then he went and told all the parents that I was selling illegal fireworks for too much money. He changed the rules on me. So when the parents came and asked me where I got the fireworks I told them I bought them from Bruce and that I was just selling what he had sold to me. The rules changed again and Bruce didn't think it was fair. Advertising is just one revenue stream. Another is selling your own products and the two combined together can be pretty powerful. Look at Disney Channel and how it is used to launch new brands and monetize old ones. You will also see new forms of encryption just take a look at all the 3-D movies coming out. Now why all of a sudden after 50 years of 3-D movies that went no where would the big studios start making 3-D movies? By the way, the next Summer some of those parents in my neighborhood took trips to Tennessee and their kids were selling firecrackers to Bruce that year. He didn't think it was fair. Keep doing what you love to do and if it has value, people will pay for it. Tim Tim Street Creator/Executive Producer French Maid TV The Viral Video of How Tos by French Maids http://frenchmaidtv.com Subscribe for FREE at: http://www.frenchmaidtv.com/itunes MY BLOG: http://1timstreet.blogspot.com/ On Nov 21, 2007, at 4:30 PM, Jay dedman wrote: > Here's an interesting opinion piece in the NY times: > http://tinyurl.com/3clb4z > > "INTERNET idealists like me have long had an easy answer for creative > types like the striking screenwriters in Hollywood who feel > threatened by the unremunerative nature of our new Eden: stop whining > and figure out how to join the party! > That's the line I spouted when I was part of the birthing celebrations > for the Web. I even wrote a manifesto titled "Piracy Is Your Friend." > But I was wrong. We were all wrong. " > > he's not really saying anything hugely new, but interesting that it's > being discussed. > will people expect web video to be free and subsidized by ads? > or can independents make a direct relationship with the community like > musicians are starting to do? > > and of course we, personal videobloggers, will continue to roll on. > http://nablopomo.ning.com/group/videobloggers > > Jay > > -- > http://jaydedman.com > 917 371 6790 > Video: http://ryanishungry.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/jaydedman > Photos: http://flickr.com/photos/jaydedman/ > RSS: http://tinyurl.com/yqgdt9 > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [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/
