Yeah, the only way I got my friends and family to watch my personal videos was by subscribing them via RSS-email myself, and telling them to click on the link to confirm. Now that I've done it, they're quite happy. Unless the video doesn't play inside the email, in which case they mostly can't be bothered to click on the link to watch on the site. You can lead a horse to water, etc.
Is there any value in forcing your video under the noses of people who say they're interested but can't actually be bothered to? The best you can do is provide a BitTorrent explanation for novices - and even then, most people will balk at having to download an app to do it. But fuck it - that's what keeps it underground, right? Otherwise, you might as well put it on Facebook or YouTube. Personally, I'm excited by what you've done. It never occurred to me to make longer form content available via BitTorrent. It opens up all sorts of possibilities that didn't exist in the ADHD world of traditional vlog and blog viewing. It's maybe like the video version of authors releasing e-book novels and stories. Something about it demands more attention than if it were dumped up on a blog entry. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "ractalfece" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Brook, my experience has been that if you treat your audience > like they're a bunch of youtube using babies who can't figure anything > out, then that's the audience you get. To get a quality audience you > need to make demands of them. > > My latest video is a 39 minute, 700 meg monster. I made a promo on > youtube. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnxyOO200ho > > As a result, I've sent over 200 emails in the past week. And the > video has been downloaded over 100 times. It may seem a little > disappointing, considering the promo has received over one thousand > views. But responding to people individually has given me a concept > of scale. 100 people is a crowd. > > I'm forwarding the torrent to your email address. Anybody else who > wants it can write [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I think underground video has the potential to become a wild beast. A > longer format. More like an album. > > Hope you enjoy it. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Brook Hinton" <bhinton@> wrote: > > > > The only people I know who torrent are some people on this list and on > > twitter who have said they do, a tiny fraction of my students, and > > some friends who work in tech and who have towers at home that stay > > on all the time. > > > > Also, many ppl I know who are biased toward things underground and > > obscure not only aren't online enough to bother with a torrent but > > have to really be pushed to investigate online video in the first > > place, though once they see the good stuff they go back to it. > > > > When I was doing Trace Garden I had more people who wanted me to email > > them every time there was a new video than I had subscribers - I > > couldn't even get them to bother with the automatic RSS-email > > approach. Even RSS was too techy-geeky for them, and these were people > > who would have been happy to watch a new episode every day. > > > > My STUDENTS - mostly late teens and twenties and a few early thirties > > - don't use RSS and very few use torrents - and when they do, it's to > > get software. For them social media means facebook, except that they > > stay on myspace for info on their favorite bands, online video means > > youtube, and finding out about cool new things happens via text > > messages. Those who are more in the know on this stuff are the ones in > > their thirties. This may be an inaccurate sample - these are art > > students (though they are primarily media arts majors, including a > > sizable number of net art people). > > > > I think we get a distorted picture of how many potential viewers > > inhabit the web the same way we do. > > > > Brook > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________________ > > Brook Hinton > > film/video/audio art > > www.brookhinton.com > > studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab > > >
