Comments on: Google, YouTube and the Future of Content http://www.managingthegray.com/2006/10/11/google-youtube-and-the-future-of-content/ C.C. Chapman gives you and your business real world advice and tactics to start leveraging social media in your daily life Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:51:18 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: whatever http://www.managingthegray.com/2006/10/11/google-youtube-and-the-future-of-content/comment-page-1/#comment-309 whatever Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:54:32 +0000 http://www.managingthegray.com/2006/10/11/google-youtube-and-the-future-of-content/#comment-309 yeah.... this is all interesting, but why would *I* want to set up a system for all of you to use? Are you willing to pay for it? By space? Bandwidth? Micropayments? Or are you willing to tolerate ad based revenue? Youtube, MySpace, etc, are turning the internet into what TV has become. A vast wasteland pandering to the lowest common denominator. Anybody want to bet on how many WalMart shoppers also have MySpace pages? And how many of them are complete fabrications? There is good content out there. All the tools already exist for you to do it yourself if it means that much to you. I don't see CC dumping MTG for a MySpace page. Hooking yourself to any mass production entity like YouTube guarentees that your content gets lost in the noise. yeah…. this is all interesting, but why would *I* want to set up a system for all of you to use? Are you willing to pay for it? By space? Bandwidth? Micropayments? Or are you willing to tolerate ad based revenue?

Youtube, MySpace, etc, are turning the internet into what TV has become. A vast wasteland pandering to the lowest common denominator. Anybody want to bet on how many WalMart shoppers also have MySpace pages? And how many of them are complete fabrications?

There is good content out there. All the tools already exist for you to do it yourself if it means that much to you. I don’t see CC dumping MTG for a MySpace page. Hooking yourself to any mass production entity like YouTube guarentees that your content gets lost in the noise.

]]> By: Ed Roberts http://www.managingthegray.com/2006/10/11/google-youtube-and-the-future-of-content/comment-page-1/#comment-307 Ed Roberts Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:51:55 +0000 http://www.managingthegray.com/2006/10/11/google-youtube-and-the-future-of-content/#comment-307 You can't say it any better than Ron and CC. Bring on the content! You can’t say it any better than Ron and CC. Bring on the content!

]]> By: Ron http://www.managingthegray.com/2006/10/11/google-youtube-and-the-future-of-content/comment-page-1/#comment-304 Ron Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:21:18 +0000 http://www.managingthegray.com/2006/10/11/google-youtube-and-the-future-of-content/#comment-304 Amen, CC! A generation ago, we entertained and informed each other though oral stories, handwritten letters, family photographs, and home movies. Then, somewhere along the line, someone told us that only professionals could do that, and so we read newspapers, gathered around radios, televisions, or crammed ourselves into popcorn-soiled movie theatre seats. During these times, we as content producers and consumers, lost the intimacy that we once shared with the storyteller/teacher. But then something interesting happened. We were given wonderful tools to tell our stories with. We were given blogs, social networks, and podcasts. We now have the opportunity to express ourselves much in the same way as generations ago – even bringing back the intimacy that was once held between producer (storyteller) and content consumer. From a technical perspective, we have the tools to create and distribute ubiquitously. We need to focus less on the technologies, and more on the skills that we’ve lost by being a generation of content-creation couch potatoes, who were once duped into thinking that we should leave the content-creation to the pros. Ron www.griddlecakes.com Amen, CC! A generation ago, we entertained and informed each other though oral stories, handwritten letters, family photographs, and home movies. Then, somewhere along the line, someone told us that only professionals could do that, and so we read newspapers, gathered around radios, televisions, or crammed ourselves into popcorn-soiled movie theatre seats. During these times, we as content producers and consumers, lost the intimacy that we once shared with the storyteller/teacher.

But then something interesting happened. We were given wonderful tools to tell our stories with. We were given blogs, social networks, and podcasts. We now have the opportunity to express ourselves much in the same way as generations ago – even bringing back the intimacy that was once held between producer (storyteller) and content consumer.

From a technical perspective, we have the tools to create and distribute ubiquitously. We need to focus less on the technologies, and more on the skills that we’ve lost by being a generation of content-creation couch potatoes, who were once duped into thinking that we should leave the content-creation to the pros.

Ron
http://www.griddlecakes.com

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