A while ago, I realized I was using too many exclamation points in my post titles. Now I'm about to impose a moratorium on ellipses, which apparently I can't stop from appearing in every title I write.
Anyhoo - I was thinking about what makes a good you-tube channel, and there's not one thing that comes to mind. Now, a while back there was "lonelygirl" who apparently was a you-tube innernet superstar - until it was revealed she had some corporate backing. I've followed a couple of channels that uploaded stuff that was clearly/obviously not theirs to upload, but I watched because it was stuff I wanted to see! I wasn't so much saddened by their suspended accounts, as I was pissed I couldn't watch some WWII documentaries or Craig Ferguson shows that I missed.
But really, the idea that you could somehow make a you tube channel of your own popular - with visitor numbers like a website is obviously nuts. You could have a bitchin' video of something crazy-cool and get picked up on digg or reddit, and have 15,000 hits in a day, but those people are never coming back. Vloging was once thought to be the next big thing after blogs - but name one popular video-blogger. You could, (if your reading fjord - I know you could) rip off twenty-five actual blogs without much struggle.
It seems to me that you tube is like an on-line archive of video more than a fame generating machine - which is great, I mean, if you know the location of a cool-assed video, it'll be there for a hell of a long time, and you can access it whenever you want without storing it anywhere. It's like flickr (where user images have been actually saved in the Library of Congress - because some images are essentially "national history") where, strong flickr users might know other great flickr members, but really, that's a pretty small chunk of people.
Anywise, I'd say that the you tube is just a redundant blast-medium. By blast medium I mean, it has the potential to explode some small thing into something huge...it's easily accessible (no password or login to view) and it's easily transferable (copy the code and it's on yer joint for your audience to see what you just saw) You can post the footage you got of some police beating a protester and get it out to the world. If it strikes the right chord, it could be seen on 100,000 websites with an audience of billions! (this doesn't have to be cops beating protesters, it could be something really cute your cat did - it just has to strike the right chord) But whatever it is...the A.P. or NY Times, or Hollywood, ain't going to be calling and asking if you want a job. It's background radiation that only gets a spike when something crazy is caught on camera...but at least it does do that.
What it is, is a good platform for getting your video on the internet and having it easily accessible. Like this for instance...a dude who once wrote over here (under the pen-name Q-dog) doing some standup in a shitty club in NYC.
The point I'm driving at is, you tube won't ever make a stars, (well, it could, but the odds are super slim) but using it as a part of your media presence isn't a bad plan at all.
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I always thought you just shouted a lot? (!!!!)
Anyhow, somebody else wrote here once? Was that in the super prolific 2005 year?
I DO SHOUT!!!!!!! ALOT!!!!!!!
You are correct. Back in 05-06 there were 3 other fella's that dropped posts here. They all went on to bigger and better things (frum what they tell me)
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