YouTube started a new feature called Quick Capture allowing you to record a video directly to the service from your laptop camera. So I tried it out. Didn’t work so well for me. And it took hours for the video to appear online. When they get the bugs worked out — and they will — this will lead, I think, to an epidemic of video conversation. Imagine forums in video.
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New Century Network: The TV sequel
Lost Remote reports that TV networks are trying to gang up and create their own YouTube — which NBC has already tried to do with its closed NBBC — and already, it’s falling apart as TV companies fail to get along, just as newspaper companies failed to gang together in their ill-fated New Century Network.
They miss the point: You want to be where the viewers are; you can’t any longer expect to force them to come to you. The viewers are on YouTube. Figure out how to exploit that — as CBS is doing, putting its clips up there — and you’ll find a new means of promotion and distribution.
: LATER: See also Jon Fine’s fine column in Business Week on the scorpion dance of YouTube/Google and the big-media companies.
: LATER: Rafat Ali says:
If I were Jon Fine, I would be pissed right now…a story making round today, being passed off as an original, was actually broken by him two weeks ago in BusinessWeek (we picked it up then here).
This morning, TechCrunch had a note this morning which is getting much play, and then tonight, WSJ has a story, using their patented lame line: “according to people close to the situation”. Then the customary Reuters pickup, which laps up anything WSJ reports on.
BarisTV
Baristanet is now on TV. Check out the first episode about an issue ready to blow up in the ‘burbs.
Exploding TV has its Boswell
Om Malik et al start a new blog devoted to exploding televison: NewTeeVee. I will be a loyal reader. I’m glad to see them covering this and glad to see the OMpire expand.
Guardian column: One man’s network
My Guardian column this week (registration-free link here) goes through the details on how we can all make, distribute, and market TV now and concludes:
So there is one last pesky issue standing between me and monomaniacal populist video triumphalism – quality. The truth is, of course, that most of what I’ve seen on YouTube et al sucks. But that is just what makes this new media vista so intriguing: even though video is easy, it’s still harder than text. A thousand monkeys may end up typing Shakespeare, but they won’t film The Godfather. So I am coming to believe that the medium itself will be a filter for talent and substance. Since you have to work harder to make it, you’ll make sure you have something worth the effort. And the difference between good and bad is more immediately apparent in video than text. So I see great opportunities to make good video. And now that I have the means of production, distribution and marketing, I need to concentrate on the fun part: having something to say and saying it well.
