Yeah, and this weekend I listened to an extremely intelligent, well- respected man telling me that man-made global warming was a myth, presumably just because he wanted to provoke a response / have an iconoclastic opinion. I didn't rise to that, either.
These aren't really provocative - they're shallow subjective personal opinions based on limited experiences, masquerading as broad statements of fact. I always assume that the majority of regular people think I'm weird (or worse) for putting videos online, because I think they probably do. Define 'failure' as stated by David Scott Lexis, when he says 'video blogs have been a failure'. What have they failed at? So they're not as popular or accessible as American Idol (even here, we're infected) but then neither is [fill in blank]. I guess [fill in blank] has been a failure, too. That's a really interesting viewpoint, David - thanks for your input. From all the scores of people that I know or have talked to about my videoblog in Real Life over the past 2 years, there are only 2 who have blogs and maybe 3 others who ever read blogs. I forward on links to vlogs to my friends and family whenever I think they'd be interested in a particular video - but not one has ever wanted to have a vlog or blog themselves or to continue to watch or read by themselves. The overwhelming majority of people you talk to in the UK think that blogs are confessional public diaries for narcissists (not that they've ever read one, if you ask). By this measure, 'blogs have been a failure' As for that other guy "Erick"s definition of entertainment... yawn. Some people make them. Some people watch them. Some people enjoy them. Some people do good and interesting things and reach audiences that they couldn't have reached before. What possible relevance has someone's subjective viewpoint of 'boring' or 'failure' got to do with this? My wife Kate is enjoying the new American Idol. I'd rather drill out my own teeth than sit through it. So what? I don't really know why I'm replying to this, because I don't think these opinions are worth getting bothered about. I'm just putting off work. Now that *is* boring. Maybe I'll just watch a few videos before I start. Rupert http://www.fatgirlinohio.org http://www.crowdabout.us/fatgirlinohio/myshow/ On 19 Mar 2007, at 10:43, Michael Schaap wrote: FYI In the comments on a short TechCrunch review (http://tinyurl.com/ 2bcqx5) about VLIP i read the following provocative statements: 'Erick' writes: "Unless a person is at least the slightest bit entertaining, Vlogging stinks. I dont want to look at some weirdo sitting at home/work talking into a webcam about their lame day or skill or opinion. If you arent as entertaining as Ze Frank, then you stink and nobody wants to hear/see you..." and David Scott Lexis writes: "Video blogs have been a failure, as I noted in a couple of AlwaysOn Network columns. Videos are one thing; automatically downloading video blogs (or video podcasts; I prefer "video podcasts") is too bandwidth intensive, too slow, takes up too much hard disk space. You want to leave your computer on all night to download video podcasts? Well, good for you but you're in the minority. How many video podcasts have been successful? Do any have over 10,000 subscribers to their feed? Compare and contrast with "standard" blogs such as this one. Matter of fact, are there any video podcasts that have even 1% of the subscribers that TechCrunch has? None that I'm aware of, and in my public blogroll I subscribe to a lot (http:// www.bloglines.com/ public/DSL). Mind you, this might be a decent idea, but until bandwidth, hard disk space and all sorts of other limitations are overcome (like the need for better and easier production techniques), it will remain a novelty for the SXSW crowd (and they're not early adopters, they're "way-too-early adopters"; in the 70's they would have been touting the wonders of AI). BTW, I still subscribe to several video podcasts for my iPod. But I suspect that I'm in the minority; I know very few people outside of the Bay area who subscribe to more than a few (if any) and I don't know anyone in China (where I currently live) who subscribes to any not even one. YouTube, thumbs up; video blogs & video podcasts, thumbs down (too early). Remember, so-called and self-anointed pioneers usually wind up with arrows in their back. Besides, how many people really have good "TV"/video presence? Not a lot. 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