The Beginning
From the videoblogging list I found about this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/squaredcircle/show/. It is a ‘movie’ made up of photos that have a common metadata tag attached. This is exactly the sort of thing that we need to start doing for video blogs. The url was sent by Ryan Shaw, the email conversation is cited below.
>if you want audience, serialisation, and ‘shows’ go for it, use
>syndication. i think using aggregation to achieve this is 1000% more
>interesting than centralising which is what the above sort of models.
>blogs work because they’re decnetralised. why reintroduce old media
>structures into a distributed network that works because *all* bits are
>distributed?
>
>this is where the rss/aggregation stuff is critical. imagine we all made
>a 60 second bit called “Christmas” and then aggregated that. that’s a
>show. that’s a new sort of show and that is what we ought to be worrying
>about
>
I totally agree. It is very close, I think. Today I found this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/squaredcircle/show/
It’s a collaborative movie. A very abstract one, but that’s what the tools are limited to now. But it’s amazing what can be done even given the limitations we have now.
So, let’s do this. We should work out a theme and invite contributions and aggregate those. This is certainly a project that I’ve already planned to do with students in 2005. Let’s invent a new genre of video come vog, the aggregated program.