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Saturday, May 21, 2005
The revolution will be televised after all 
| | Compare Amanda Congdon's latest Rocketboom vlog with whatever the local TV news stations wedge between ads and promos for network shows. |
| | What happens when cell phones also serve as vlogcast-quality camcorders? Just wondering. |
| | Ananda's qualifier (from the comments, which don't feature permalinks... yet): |
| | Here in lies the problem with main stream media. |
| | They portray us (Rocketboom) like we want to overthrow regular journalism. We don't. |
| | We are a show. And we are biased. We CAN and WILL show only one side of a story if we so desire. If you are looking for typical "journalism" you won't find it here. |
| | PLEASE point to us and tell everyone why we are NOT the future of regular journalism. That is not what we are intending to do here. |
| | But, for the record, I approached three or four different police officers from that precinct yesterday. None of them would speak to us. If anyone else would like to pursue them‹do so! By all means. But I am not interested in chasing after them. |
| | While it's wrong to say the likes of Rocketboom will "overthrow" mainstream media, it's right to say the mainstream will flatten into a braided river, fed by waters of that melting glacier we still call "the audience" or "consumers." |
| | Once again, the demand side supplies itself. Clue for the threatened: These people are your new stringers. Learn from them. |
| | We differ from a regular TV program in many important ways. Instead of costing millions of dollars to produce, Rocketboom is created with a consumer-level video camera, a laptop, two lights and a map with no additional overhead or costs. Also, Rocketboom is distributed online, all around the world and on demand, and thus has a much larger potential audience than any TV broadcast. However, we spend $0 on promotion, relying entirely on word-of-mouth, and close to $0 on distribution because bandwidth costs and space are so inexpensive. While TV programs have traditionally been uni-directional, Rocketboom engages its international audience in a wide range of topical discussions. |
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| | I can hear a variation on Dylan: There's something happening here and you do know what it is, don't you, Mr. Jones? (The name of the song, by the way, is "Ballad of a Thin Man".) |
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