Walt Mossberg (whom I ran into last week in San Jose) in the Wall Street Journal: It’s Not All YouTube — The Web Is a Trove Of Watchable Videos.
Amen to that, brother. Excerpt:
While YouTube is sometimes seen as synonymous with the Internet
video revolution, there is a lot more to Web video. In fact, some of
the most interesting video on the Web isn’t even the type of stuff
that’s most popular on YouTube — short, one-off clips.In
various corners of the Web, people are producing real, episodic TV
shows, including news, drama and comedy — sometimes with real actors and professional production values. Some of these longer-form, episodic shows are called video blogs, or vlogs, but others simply call themselves shows. Instead of lasting just a few minutes, they can run up to half an hour. These programs have more in common with regular broadcast and cable shows than with those emailed clips.One of these days, a real hit show will emerge on the Web. …
A number of interesting sites have sprung up. My favorite is blip.tv,
run by a team made up of a former systems administrator for the NHL,
and a former TV news reporter and producer. …One of my favorite shows available on blip.tv is called "Goodnight
Burbank," a comedy series about the squabbling that goes on behind the
scenes at a local TV news show. Another is "Alive in Baghdad," news
reports from Americans and Iraqis on how the war affects average
Iraqis. "Cube News 1" is a series about life in the office cubicle.
Other shows I’ve enjoyed on blip.tv include "HotRoast,""The Ministry of
Unknown Science" and "Josh Leo." …
Congrats to all the videobloggers whose work is finally achieving notice from journalists with a national reach.
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
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