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the blip.tv blog » It’s the rock star, not the vinyl
the blip.tv blog » It’s the rock star, not the vinyl
Mike Hudack of blip.tv believes that it’s not worth talking about whether video online is called videoblog, or web tv, or podcasts because it’s the show/story that counts. His argument is compelling, except that it seems to be saying that what happens online is TV, just over a different network and I just don’t agree with that.
The huge potential of online video, to my mine at least, comes from the fact that it is unlike TV in many ways - reach, audience, broadcast model, motivation, likely outcome, revenue stream. It’s not just the network. Many-to-many, few-to-few video is not like TV has been for decades because TV is the epitome of the one-to-many world. If you go right back to the ideals of the inventors and early evangelisers for tele vision you come closer to what we’re moving towards today. But for most of the years in between television was not about connecting people to each other, and allowing them to see into each other’s lives.
I don’t know. I can live with the “they’re all shows” but not, it’s all just different types of TV. Watching Law and Order SVU is a totally different thing, done for different reasons, with different social, economic, and cultural implications than watching your friends’ video shows.
Still, a very interesting point, by a very interesting, smart man who talks a lot of sense, so certainly worth a read and a think.
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