Anything that helps independent creators and/or people who are trying to leverage this new medium into something else, I say great!! As we know there are some really great people out there who are doing some good work and have worked hard to achive the success they have.
Me, I will just continue to do my thing and not worry about all that....I vlog because I can.... Heath http://heathparks.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert <rup...@...> wrote: > > Here's the kind of post that would have induced a feeding frenzy back > in the good old bad old days here on the group. Like throwing an > underling to the piranhas. In the spirit of that, I give you: > > The International Academy of Web Television > http://www.iawtv.org/ > > Just launched last week, though no one mentioned it here. > > Members are voting on The Streamys awards which Josh Cohen announced > a while ago here. The Academy was created by a cartel of the main > web video news sites: Tilzy.tv, Tubefilter and NewTeeVee. > > They've published their inaugural membership list, featuring some of > our friends from the group. Most of those you'd expect, who have > popular shows, know a lot of people, do the social media thing well, > and connect in real life in the right circles at meetups in NY, SF or > LA (But not Scoble or Feldman or Ze Frank). Not just performers and > show producers, but executives and talent agents. > > I'm not quite sure why the limit on numbers - other Academies have > hundreds or thousands of members, and there are quite a few people > I'd want to see on the list who aren't there, because they're either > not commercial enough or not well enough connected - even though they > have strong and interesting voices and ideas about web television and > independent production. That said, I'm particularly glad to see W&S > in there. Although I clearly remember Quirk saying that awards were > pretentious and pointless, and belong on the wall of real estate > offices, so I hope you're not going to vote in the Streamys. (I > nominated you). > > And so much for "International" - as far as I can see, the only even > vaguely non-US representation there is Daily Motion's US > representative and RDF television's US executive. Not even anybody > from any other English speaking countries? That's just lazy - I > wouldn't be so bothered by it if it wasn't called the "International > Academy of Web Television". If you're going to call it that, you've > got to go out of your way to get some representation from other > countries, on more than a token level. > > Anyway, now the media has an official organisation to talk to when > they do stories about Web TV. So if the rest of us want to have a > voice in media discussion of web video (its present state and its > future), we'd better follow Jeffrey's lead and organize ourselves. > > Rupert > http://twittervlog.tv >
