--- In netvidtheory@yahoogroups.com, "Kath O'Donnell" <aliak77@...> wrote:
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> On 2/23/06, Enric <enric@...> wrote:
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> > Previously I raised a topic I didn't have any stake in,
distinguishing
> > Personal and Show vlogs. It didn't go anywhee probably because 1) the
> > categorization may be irrelevant and 2) I had not point of view to
> > express and develop on it.
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> sorry, I didn't get back to replying, has been crazy busy at work
last few
> weeks! perhaps it's similar for others returning to work after the xmas
> break where lists were more chatty.
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> For this topic I want to look at the salient or essential quality of
> > video on a distributed network. The phrase "information wants to be
> > free" I see as for video on the network wants to travel where ever it
> > is allowed. Like a river, it will find any avenues that are open in
> > it's path. That it is the distributed nature of the web that defines
> > video. And that traveling everywhere it can is the essential element
> > of net video whether it's a videoblog, video podcast or another form
> > of distribution.
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> yeah I'd agree with this. and video attached to emails or links to
videos
> on emails makes it spread even more. especially all those 'joke'
lists at
> work which send links to videos also. they're not strictly videoblog
videos
> I suppose, but video on the net nevertheless.

Correct, they are video on the web. And this group is discussing net
video. It fits here. :)

It appears that video requires an audience. When motion pictures were
invented by Edison, he saw it's natural usage as being viewed
individually. So he introduced the peep show in 1894 where people
could watch short films looking into a stand up device. The Lumiere
brothers in France showed their short movies in the basement of a cafe
which was an immediate success. People wanted to share each others
experience of watching moving pictures.

Now we're somewhat back to the peep show with many watching alone on
mobile devices like the Zen and iPods and on a computer screens. But
the nature of making and distributing a video still demands more than
one person view it. Then comments form a virtual audience of
discussion and reaction on the piece viewed. Comments and RSS,
audience and video traveling where ever it can -- the qualities of net
video.

-- Enric
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