Irish Hermit wrote: > > 2. Vlogs are nothing more than homemade television on the internet. > Get over it folks. I've been around too long to think of it as > nothing more than another installment in a long line of the "next > great thing" that will change how we all communicate. Email and > webpages with hypertext were monumental changes. Blogs and vlogs > are > just adding an already existing technology to webpages. Laptops > will > replace the cumbersome television console in the middle of the > living > room. Ipods and other small players will become the Dick Tracy > writstwatch tv's we've been waiting for. But at the end of the day > it's still television.
I guess it's a matter of definition... I obviously don't agree with your definition of 'television' which to me requires licenses, towers, lots of staff, advertisers, lawyers, sizable audiences, etc... Personally I consider email and blogs giant leaps in how we communicate. I think this discussion right here is proof of that. > 3. To those who say the difference here is that no one can tell us > what to say: That's not true. There are plenty of laws on libel, > slander, pornography, national defence, and copyright that limit > what > you can say on your vlog. Most ISP have limits in their terms of > service on things like "hate speech". You can't do anything you > want. Ok, maybe 'no one can tell us what to say' is a little too literal. It's more like 'I don't have to base what I can say off of what will piss off the advertisers, my boss, or get my license revoked' Most television aims to please the advertisers and audience. Today most videoblogs do not have these concerns. If you think videoblogs are the same as television, why bother watching them? Can't you just watch tv and get all the same stuff? Pete -- http://tinkernet.org/ videoblog for the future... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> 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/
