Of course it is exciting and has its place in the mix of networked media. It is amazing how fast all things video have progressed in just about 2 years. I suppose i expected most of it.... and i recall some early discussions on this list by doubters who said nothing big will happen for at least 5 years.... then the online video boom began.
Live streaming is certainly not any sort of replacement or even a comparable form of distribution to progressive downloads and archived media. But it is just as powerful and necessary, primarily for communication (which bleeds into entertainment). For journalists alone, it is huge. Art making... maybe less so. I'm not sure how practical the technology is right now, but its fun to see the experimentation being done. Justin.TV is obviously for making a point and to demonstate what is possible... but nobody is going to walk around with a fat camera on the hat like that. Oh yeah, its all kind of freaky too ;) sull On 4/13/07, Ryan Ozawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Steve Garfield experimented with live vlogging with his Nokia phone > earlier > this month. Justin Kan of Justin.TV is walking around San Francisco with a > camera strapped to his head and EVDO cards in his backpack for continuous > live video. And last night, Chris Pirillo had Ustream.TV, Robert Scoble's > Twitter might, and a blogger across the border to pull together a live > report on the Mexico City Earthquake: > > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4502606569188610270&hl=en > > Of course, folks were more excited by the technology than the > earthquake... > agog over the implications for news distribution and citizen journalism. > From the energy that collided in Pirillo's show, it's chear the simmering > potential is there. Scoble is going to do his own live-from-phone coverage > of a conference next week. > > Periodic and archived video is vital -- after all, someone had to record > Pirillo's live show to re-live it today! -- but it looks like pervasive > "live" video, lifestreaming, whatever you want to call it, is here a lot > sooner than most would've predicted. > > Ryan > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
