Hi Jay! Hi all of you! Thanks a lot for forwarding my email (to Joly - who?) and telling a bit about the early days. It's really helpful for my research because I hadn't been interested in web-videos at that time. Actually, I hadn't known about it before there was a local offer (just a platform with videos) for the town I lived in.
General, web-tv is not too famous in Germany. Mostly, I have the feeling it's still an American trend (anyway, especially in tech-stuff, Europe is round about 4 years behind the US they say)... That's a really, really good question for social science or cultural anthropology if and why citizens of some societies are more interested in showing their everyday lifeĀ But on the other hand the mainstream reality tv is quite famous in Germany, even though I think it goes down in some time. (It has been so long the favourite of the tv networks... ) But blogs are different. I think for a society blog and videoblog are a good way for real self-assurance. Why is it less usual in Germany (assumed it is like that): Maybe blogs are associated with narcissism. Also, we have a more or less strict liability to criticism. So with a Videoblog you are really vulnerable.. Just spontaneous speculation! What do you think? Can you tell me if the vogma manifesto was discussed within this group? I haven't found a wide discussion about it. Strange, if I had been there I would have had the necessity to discuss it in detail. A pity, five years too late ;-D. Have a nice day! Jenn --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman <jay.ded...@...> wrote: > > > I agree, from 2005 on the Web-TV-community changes a lot because of > > YouTube. I divide the Web-TV-development in three parts: >from 1993 until > > 2000 with pseudo.com, DEN and webisodes, 2000 until 2005 and the > > YouTube-era until today. > > That's a good way to break it up. > Pseudo and Broadcast.com were doing all kinds of online video > experiments. I assume youve seen > http://www.weliveinpublicthemovie.com/. It's a fun documentary about > Josh Harris who really spearheaded a lot of the online video scene > during the first tech boom. > > When I started videoblogging in 2004, I couldnt find really anyone > except a couple folks who were using blogs to post video. That was my > big excitement: posting video to a blog so it was easy to publish > regularly...so it could take advantages of the social aspect of > vlogs...and could be archived. > > Much of the work from 1993-2003 was often erased...or unsearchable > since they were videos w/out text on html pages. Or someone would post > a video, then never post again. Good news is that much of that stuff > is now being re-uploaded to Youtube. I'm cc'ing Joly on this email. He > may be able to share some of his experiences in NYC in the early days. > > > Actually, there are not so many German-speaking vlogs. Most formats tend to > > a genre I call videoprogram (those I am concentrating on), they are more a > > semi-professional produced show or magazine (like Rocketboom). > > One quite famous videoblog of the scene just gave up: She (Schnutingers > > Netrzkabarett) was bashed because of acting in a commercial . However, in > > Germany there are rather videoblogs of prominent people than those of > > average citizens: like Angela Merkel's videoblog > > http://www.bundeskanzlerin.de/Webs/BK/De/Mediathek/Videos/videos.html (it's > > stiff and a kind of deadpan but unintentionally funny), the former > > videoblog of a famous show master (the German David Letterman: Harald > > Schmidt) or one blog of >a German journalist: > > http://www.spiegel.de/video/video-36686.html. > > Im often curious why videoblogging is more popular is some societies > and not others. In Germany, is it a cultural thing not wanting to make > a video about personal life? > > Jay > > -- > http://ryanishungry.com > http://jaydedman.com > http://twitter.com/jaydedman > 917 371 6790 >
