BloggerCon II -- Session led by Ole Eichhorn.
I had planned attend the Nick Denton session, but when he cancelled I reconsidered. Steve G's videoblogging was causeing some buzz among attendees, so even though video is not my primary field, this seemed like it would be interesting. It was.
People want help sorting through all the video choices, and the consensus is that web-based video will inevitably increase the number of choices.
There was a difference of opinion as to whether "regular people" wanted to create video for the web, but agreement that the tools to simplify the workflow to posting were lacking.
There was discussion about how to, or whether to even try to, protect your creative work. Change/progress is needed here.
And a way to collect payment for video was discussed. Subscription, payperview, micropayments, etc. No consensus here.
What follows are my pretty raw notes that I made while sitting in the session.
(These notes aren't an attempt to transcribe the session. They are just the things that I thought interesting enought to write down. Also, quotes aren't verbatim, but are paraphrasing. Items not specifically attributed, are anonymous.)
Ole Eichhorn: "what would you like for personal tv?"
A channel that only contains the tv I want to watch
One that finds the oddball shows that I might like
microsoft guy: tivo has limited supply of programs...
iFilm is an existing source of good stuff
Making good video is hard, not many people can do it.
Like with reg journalism, there may be video journalists who want an alt channel for their stuff.
Most people don't want to make their own video
Dave Winer: People DO want to make their own video
To make something that is good is REALLY hard.
Dave Winer: What is def of good
MIT library lady: How do you deal with authenticity issues?
Steve Garfield: I took the accordian guy, and I'll put it on my videoblog
blogging sundance: we did quick videos. then 10-20K people a day visiting for these things.
lots of kids doing stuff with home video. an example: school wouldn't post student campaign videos, the kids went home, re-edited, posted on net, went back to school handed out flyers with url
star wars kid video, brilliant
Dave Winer: It doesn't have to be broadcast quality. it can have value to small audiences, and also to future audiences.
you never know what will be popular. something that might seem limited audience could takeoff.... bit torrent is important there
blog as filter of video material
instead of trying to defeat copyright extension, we must encourage creators to release things under things like cc.
BBC is doing this.
question to steveg: how do you feel if someone repurposes your work? It would be ok as long as he credited me, and didn't use my bandwidth.
what happens when people pirate your bandwidth?
blogvideo and blogaudio site... ability to excerpt from realvideo/audio
it would be good if the tools supported putting media onto site... eg drag and drop
real world experiment: a gang of blogger in sf who are going to group blog a giants baseball game
that will be a mess... giants have a contract with their tv partners... but they created their own problem by putting in free wifi...
we're gonna sell subs to online training videos
microconsent micropayment system
me: predicting 5 years out is too far. try one year, that's challenging enough.
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Jack--
i know this is an old post.
My friend Peter and I started a videoblogging discussion group several weeks ago.
Steve Garfield joined us.
I was doing a google on him and found you.
please join the conversation if your interested in videoblogging.
some of the talk is very geeky, techy stuff that sometimes goes over my head.
we're trying to develop new, easier tools.
but we're also putting video in our blogs to see what works.
just join and introdcue yourself.
only about 40 of us.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/
see you in there,
Jay Dedman