I like this response better than my own. - Andreas
Den 19.04.2007 kl. 14:32 skrev Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Bullshit Bullshit BULLSHIT tech piece, trying to find a tech angle > that didn't need to be found. Maybe in order to justify writing > about it on a tech blog. > > Wow, Dave, I didn't know that everyone who ever owned a video camera > and shot home movies of themselves talking on it was a vlogger. Um, > isn't the internet involved somehow? > > No? Then I know loads of vloggers! Cool, I should invite my dad to > this group. He'd fit right in. > > Hm. What *is* a videoblog? > > Quote Doc Searls response: "We don't know if he thought about > uploading them to YouTube. But, since he planned to fill the rest of > his morning with murder, it's likely that he didn't want to post his > plans on the Live Web -- where somebody might see it and get > authorities to stop him. So he opted instead for snail mail and a big > bang later on the small screen. YouTube would come, inevitably, later." > > Um. WWW.WHATEVER.DUDE > > Quote Winer: "In other words, vlogging comes to mass murder, in ways > no one anticipated (or no one I know). It makes perfect sense, in a > perfectly senseless way." > Leaving aside the meaning of vlogging for a second... it COMES TO > mass murder? COMES TO? WHAT???? Does it really make sense, Dave, > does it REALLY? > > Quote Winer: "We're watching it on MSNBC now. It's amazing stuff. The > videos are Quicktime files. NBC should release all of the videos in > Quicktime form as downloads. It's wrong to withhold them." > > It's WRONG TO WITHOLD THEM? Why? Can you substantiate that > intellectually AT ALL? Because it was this fucking guy's last wish, > and we should honour that? In what way does anybody benefit from > seeing it - and how do the families of the dead feel about it? Or, > um, is it because you're getting a rush from listening to a real life > psycho? COME ON, MAN. GROW UP. THINK. > > God, I can't believe I just got so wound up about this. As David > Lynch would say, Bullshit. Fucking Bullshit. > > Rupert > http://twittervlog.blogspot.com/ > http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ > > > On 19 Apr 2007, at 13:09, Steve Garfield wrote: > > Dave Winer wrote this post: > > "Vlogging comes to mass murder > > The Virginia Tech shooter sent a package of video and pictures to NBC. > > In other words, vlogging comes to mass murder, in ways no one > anticipated (or no one I know)." > > http://scripting.com/ > > Share your thoughts with him. > > I did. > > --Steve > -- > Steve Garfield > http://SteveGarfield.com > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > -- Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen <URL: http://www.solitude.dk/ >
