--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Frank Sinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The revolution, to me, is that the walled gardens of old media no
longer exist - they no longer decide what is good and what
is garbage (BTW - how many good shows have been on TV over the
past few years?!?!?). With
The revolution, to me, is that the walled gardens of old media no
longer exist - they no longer decide what is good and what
is garbage (BTW - how many good shows have been on TV over the
past few years?!?!?). With the Internet, the people deciding what is
good and what is garbage are the
I still think you are making some major assumptions about what
everyone thinks the revolution is, what mediocre is.
For a start, isnt the fact that people can find it worthwhile making
stuff even if they only have a tiny audience, a revolution in itself?
If your revolution requires that what you
Of Frank Sinton
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2007 3:37 PM
To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [videoblogging] +Re: The Cult of the Amateur
The revolution, to me, is that the walled gardens of old media no
longer exist - they no longer decide what is good and what
is garbage (BTW - how many
but what IS surprising is when some of us, who are
expecting a revolution from the social media sphere, rally to the
defense of this mediocrity.
who is doing this?
jay
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--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Justin Kownacki
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew Keen may be a
Heath,
Didn't you get the memo?
Profit is more important than people.
The internet is a tool that delivers profit, and we can't have people
expropriating that profit to do something as stupid as 'connect' with
another person. Every megabyte that goes towards connecting people is
one that
I would like to ask:
How does Keen think people become professionals?
We all start out as amateurs and then, hopefully, produce professional
quality content.
I think a lot of the people on this list are proof that the Internet has
quality professionals.
Terry Rendon
www.terryannonline.com
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I read some of the excepts from the book but got tired of its
one-sidedness quickly. I am rather interested in many of the things
Keen highlights, and I think some of his concerns have some validity.
But he takes it much too far, and seems to be saying everything from
the point of view that our
Im not sure if that view still dominates business and the
profitmongers attitude to the web though.
I think capitalism is getting used to the slight adjustment in the
nature of of how they make money from the consumers. They can easily
think of people connecting as just a change in what people
Depends what sort of mediocrity he's talking about. I will rally to
the defense of all sorts of videos that some people will think are
mediocre. And I will look at some videos and hate them. I will look at
some videos and despair of humanity, I will look at others and find
hope. I will not find
Well there was more than one issue that got all wrapped up in that
Wikipedia argument, unfortunately it rather muddied the waters when it
came to having a clean debate about the issue you highlight, which is
an important one. I went into rules-stickler mode on that one, casting
aside the specific
There is a lot of mediocre stuff out there on the web, but that can't
be solved systemically. But there's a ton of crappy TV, so-so books,
and passable films.
Why should we expect a medium that is largely low-budget and indie be
any different than its old skool, well-funded counterparts?
If we
What's crappy or mediocre to one person is pure gold to another.
There's room for it all on the internet. And that is the whole fucking
point! You don't have to be good to be on the Internet and nobody
can make you watch the stuff you don't want to watch.
Some of my favorite videos are the ones
I woke up one Saturday morning and I heard this guy speak.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11131872
I don't do Web 2.0. I make videos. I make a certain type of
blog/vlog that is targeted to a certain population. I might use
so-called Web 2.0 technology but at the end of the
Andrew Keen may be a shrewd opportunist, catering to the fearmongers
who live in terror of socialized media destroying their ivory towers,
but Schlomo's right when he points out that we on this list still
aspire to some kind of meritocracy -- even if we view that meritocracy
in completely
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