Videoblogging Week Day 5. I shot some stuff to post yesterday but didn’t do it. It just felt like I needed to respond to the great discussion going on in the comments of the last post and I needed some time to think about it all. And what I’m thinking so far is that maybe why so many people are having a hard time with what I’ve thrown out there is that they are looking at it from inside the TV or commercial media paradigm. The problem with that is that this is not TV. Now as human beings we are driven to make sense of things and one main way we do that is by relating new information to old information. We see video and think, “Gosh, I’ve seen video on TV. Oh, I get it. This is like TV but on the Internet.” This kind of thinking fails us because it prevents us from seeing this new thing (videoblogging) for what it really is.
Now what it really is, is really just what we agree it is. And I’ve seen a shift in what we collectively agree videoblogging is. It’s not like we got together and voted on it but as more and more voices have joined the conversation, the number of people looking at it like TV on the internet has increased and changed the dynamics of the conversation.
These experiments are an attempt at pushing back. At trying to make sense of where this all came from and where it’s all going.
If you haven’t seen it yet, you should also watch and read Jay’s “The Talking Head Argument.”
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Videoblogging Week 2006 – Day 3 (I’m late again – unless you live in a time zone west of here). Anyway, this is something I’ve been thinking about more and more lately. For more than a year now people have been playing my Vlog Anarchy post where I say it’s too early to define videoblogging. Now I see things like iTunes TV show downloads and videoblogs that are created to make money rather than communicate starting to alter the course of the public conversation. I say those kinds of things are not videoblogging. So now I think it’s time to take a stand and start staking out some videoblogging territory. This is just the first part.
BTW, this video reminds me of two others by my co-conspiritors. If you haven’t seen these you should. They make similar but distinct points about this issue.
Momentshowing: A Videoblog Circa 2006
Ryanne’s Video Blog: Digital Bonnie And Clyde
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I don’t know what it’s like where you live but here in the heart of Bush country, I still see one or two of these things every time I leave my house. The sad thing is it feels like the main reason they’re so scarce is that everyone got a new car in the last 17 months.
If you’re keeping track, this is my second video (late) for Videoblogging Week 2006. I’ll have to start working on these things before 8 PM.
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Videoblogging Week 2006, day 1 – just under the wire! This is some video of, well, some color tube things that I saw at a party during SXSW. They had a sign on them that said Element Labs. The soundtrack is another one of my loopacular creations. Enjoy.
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Last year we had Videoblogging Week 2005. So, of course, we’re going to do it again. Read More »
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