dcinput daily for Sat 18th Nov, 2006
Podcastcon UK is later today. I got a last minute ticket so I’ll be there sampling some of the atmosphere. Should be fun!
More on the conference later. A conversation happening on the Yahoo Videoblogging mailing list has caught my attention.
The other Videoblogging Community
Eric Rice: “They might not come from YOUR world, but they are part of the world”. Watch the video on his post before you read on.
I’ve been subscribed to the the mailing list for a few weeks now. I’m no videoblogger but I’m really interested in the space and it was a good way to see what was going on in it.
What Eric was pointing out was that over the past few years different videoblogging communities have developed. Sites such as MySpace and YouTube make it very easy to publish video to the world but because of the way these sites are implemented the new and often thriving communities are kept within a walled garden.
Many of the people on the Yahoo list were among the innovators in the whole videoblogging movement and the question which is arrising seems to be whether the community they have built has infact become a walled garden in itself. You see many of the people on the list seem at times to look down on these other communities for various reasons.
In a seperate thread Andrew Baron of Rocketboom asks “What next?”.
An important part of communites of all types is the bonding that occurs in between all its members. In order for different communities to live in harmoney together another equally important activity is bridging between them.
With so much creativity from all these web video pioneers, surely there must be a way to start conversations between these communities. Imagine the fun that would ensue when videobloggers behind these walled gardens suddenly realised other entire communities were reaching out, trying to talk to them.
What would this do to the companies like YouTube and MySpace? If we lead by example maybe the walls would crumble.