I still don't get this obsession with "the business model" for videoblogging. How can you have a single business model based on a delivery mechanism? It's like writers, people who sketch, and therapists who take notes while listening to their clients all trying to find a single business model that works for all involved based on their common use of ink pens. Look at the range of work done by people on this very list - yes, we have some concerns in common and there is some semblance of community involved, but in terms of what we do we are all over the place, even among those of us who connect the use of videoblogs with making a living. Maybe there's a business model for tech-related serial infotainment vlogs, or social documentary vlogs, or video art, or (add dozens of uses here), and there are common features of future business models, but what helps an tech-related infotainment show doesn't necessaily help a social documentary vlog doesn't necessarily help a sitcom-series-vlog doesn't necessarily help a personal-with-commercial-aspirations vlog etc etc etc. To say nothing of the fact that within the group with commercial aspirations, some are happy to work with commercial sponsors, some with ads, and some would never dream of involvement with either.
The question, to me, is how we help EACH OTHER achieve our often contradictory goals without devaluing those differences or letting one group define the discussion? I think that's the key to real value happening for this group as a community. Is it even possible? Brook ________________________________________________ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab
