Their quality is now on par, I'd say, with the mid-80s regionally produced TV shows by the local affiliates of the big networks...
So, commercialism does drive quality, but the public abilities are never far behind.
But, yeah, public access. There's hope though... more people are video editing at home, and that spawns consumer products. Plus, your kids most likely have an option for video editing at school.
The public, moves slow, but I think will ultimately have the quality in the end.
You don't think you could start your own revolution on *your* ideas with worldwide-distributed video? It's not grandeur, in fact, video images are becomming the tool of the common person. Hell, the last wedding I was at the slideshow had bluescreen, titling, montage fast editing... And it was done just by some guy.
The video revolution has been happening for some time, it's just getting closer to you.
Does it have to have mass appeal for it to be interesting? I think this technology facilitates the flow of things that *don't* have all that mass appeal.
Like a weekly show from true-techy women in a town talking about cool concerts coming up. That's it. I would watch that!
You're not seeing the forest.
If you look at the flickr's tag feature, what you get are highly topical photos submitted by real people with very low error rate as to what they are about.
When the rawest of resources are combined, you can easily extract information from just about anything.
For instance, there's a USENET meme search engine somewhere out on the web that calculates the occurance of a word on USENET, and tallies the counts of posts.
For a popular term like "ColdPlay", you see peaks at their first and second albums, and a steady growth overall.
Madonna played out in the 80s... sure we all know that, but I think it's compelling that the Internet can show that in a meaningful, if not democratic, way.
Collaborative editing and aggregation is just around the corner... like an RSS reader for video. It could be possible to do something like "show each first frame of all downloaded video, together at 30fps"... It could be a way to channel surf public video in an instant.
There's a lot of bandwidth to waste!
BitTorrent works like a jet engine in the sense that the more people are interested in something, the more bandwidth there is available to get it. Conversely, you shouldn't worry too much as bad ideas will stay bad ideas and won't propogate much.
BTW, have you seen harddrive prices lately? WTF are *you* putting on your 200 gig drive?
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Meta, meta, meta. Sure goatse.cx is a prime example of meta data failing us, but for the most part, when you go to cnn.com, you get cnn.
If video gets cataloged correctly, and as technology improves to do more information extraction from it (video type, quality, length, etc... perhaps soon voice-to-text ala dragon or viavoice) I think you'll find that the archives of publically available video will start to resemble more or less a small portion of the private video archives that most TV networks have in the very near future.
Besides the fact that the Internet Archive has promised unlimited bandwidth and storage for life for any Creative Commons licensed material, it should be noted that BitTorrent is also playing a role in this.
By syndicating.torrents automatically, channels of swarming mirroring can be formed to amass what could be called efficient broadcasting. On private lans, there's also no reason why you couldn't run VLC and Myth, and have a complete video network with on-demand-downloadable-by-bt type content, as well as redistribution of streaming media already out on the net (remember the internet tv article?)
This is big, and it is hot. It's not *entirely* the downfall of big media, but it is in fact the eventuality of big media as our channel list grows, and our options for consumption and means of consuming this media grow.
Some claim that this means TV and Film will die, or that all this material will end up looking like the lamest of public-access tv....
Well, public access TV looks almost exactly in production, quality, and distribution as mid-80's regionally-produced TV shows (like Romper Room, or Cleveland's SUPERHOST!)
Also, your kids are going to school and learning video production... on DV equipment in some cases.
So, it's not the end of big media... it's the start of a new decentralized wonder. It'll probably both be worse than today (ads that make Futurama's attempts at advertising parody not funny anymore), and much purer (how about a family, community, slashdot, or special interest group TV show? Commercial free?)
As a side note, some of these patterns will most likely be evident in tonight's Frontline on PBS about the "persuasion industry"... I'll be watching that one!
Anyway, start looking into this stuff, because it is what you make it. If you want to bitch about it, well, start your own damn TV show.
Right on! I agree with this. Second-hand smoke research, also, has been discredited outside of the US. Most in the world equate it to being near a running car.
But the capitalization of anti-smoking is, for now, gaining on smoking.
!!! good point... People forget that the constitution says nothing about foreign affairs... wonder why the US is so seemingly authoritarian with respects to the world?
The BBC is looking into multicasting for UK isps... I remember these sorts of stories about Google and Ebay and others...
Why can't we let IP block decide or.fr or similar? Let us not forget that France's child porn laws I hear are somewhat less than in the US... but also, they they and Germany were the only ones to have the balls to stand up against the US over Iraq, but perhaps that had something to do with oil for food... oh wait... shit... goddamn elections
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I don't think so... in fact... encryption would just shout "hey! we're doing something secret! come triangulate us!"
Some terrorist fund raising is done on the internet, in plain Arabic text... why hide? You'll just get less money.
Actually, my free hosting, free-conversant.com doesn't have native RSS support (easily acheived through templating tho), but with its message-centric approach to content managent, it has native NNTP support. Seems to be the comments of most on here that NNTP is already there. Why not RSS over NNTP?
If a blog is published in the woods, and no one is around...
No, I don't think blogs themselves (with an average of 12 readers each) are very powerful. But combined with massive syndication and micro content searchable with keywords, a needle in the haystack could be felt.
You're right though, most bloggers (er... perhaps myself included) have a very high opinion of their content.
I know its sort of a chicken / egg thing... but can someone explain exactly why BT itself can't be used to distribute torrents, or to share the bandwidth of tracking?
I don't want to sound too much like a sooth-sayer here, but I find that its becoming increasingly hard to find *good* knowledge... and what qualifies it as *good*? Is CNN good? Is Al-Jazeer? Is my neighbor's gossip? How about what my ex-girlfriends? What about my wife? What about... heheh you get what I mean.
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Their quality is now on par, I'd say, with the mid-80s regionally produced TV shows by the local affiliates of the big networks... So, commercialism does drive quality, but the public abilities are never far behind. But, yeah, public access. There's hope though... more people are video editing at home, and that spawns consumer products. Plus, your kids most likely have an option for video editing at school. The public, moves slow, but I think will ultimately have the quality in the end.
You could probably already do this with some hot VLC scripting.
You don't think you could start your own revolution on *your* ideas with worldwide-distributed video? It's not grandeur, in fact, video images are becomming the tool of the common person. Hell, the last wedding I was at the slideshow had bluescreen, titling, montage fast editing... And it was done just by some guy. The video revolution has been happening for some time, it's just getting closer to you.
Does it have to have mass appeal for it to be interesting? I think this technology facilitates the flow of things that *don't* have all that mass appeal. Like a weekly show from true-techy women in a town talking about cool concerts coming up. That's it. I would watch that!
You're not seeing the forest. If you look at the flickr's tag feature, what you get are highly topical photos submitted by real people with very low error rate as to what they are about. When the rawest of resources are combined, you can easily extract information from just about anything. For instance, there's a USENET meme search engine somewhere out on the web that calculates the occurance of a word on USENET, and tallies the counts of posts. For a popular term like "ColdPlay", you see peaks at their first and second albums, and a steady growth overall. Madonna played out in the 80s... sure we all know that, but I think it's compelling that the Internet can show that in a meaningful, if not democratic, way.
Collaborative editing and aggregation is just around the corner... like an RSS reader for video. It could be possible to do something like "show each first frame of all downloaded video, together at 30fps" ... It could be a way to channel surf public video in an instant.
There's a lot of bandwidth to waste! BitTorrent works like a jet engine in the sense that the more people are interested in something, the more bandwidth there is available to get it. Conversely, you shouldn't worry too much as bad ideas will stay bad ideas and won't propogate much. BTW, have you seen harddrive prices lately? WTF are *you* putting on your 200 gig drive?
Meta, meta, meta. Sure goatse.cx is a prime example of meta data failing us, but for the most part, when you go to cnn.com, you get cnn. If video gets cataloged correctly, and as technology improves to do more information extraction from it (video type, quality, length, etc... perhaps soon voice-to-text ala dragon or viavoice) I think you'll find that the archives of publically available video will start to resemble more or less a small portion of the private video archives that most TV networks have in the very near future.
By syndicating .torrents automatically, channels of swarming mirroring can be formed to amass what could be called efficient broadcasting. On private lans, there's also no reason why you couldn't run VLC and Myth, and have a complete video network with on-demand-downloadable-by-bt type content, as well as redistribution of streaming media already out on the net (remember the internet tv article?)
This is big, and it is hot. It's not *entirely* the downfall of big media, but it is in fact the eventuality of big media as our channel list grows, and our options for consumption and means of consuming this media grow.
Some claim that this means TV and Film will die, or that all this material will end up looking like the lamest of public-access tv....
Well, public access TV looks almost exactly in production, quality, and distribution as mid-80's regionally-produced TV shows (like Romper Room, or Cleveland's SUPERHOST!)
Also, your kids are going to school and learning video production... on DV equipment in some cases.
So, it's not the end of big media... it's the start of a new decentralized wonder. It'll probably both be worse than today (ads that make Futurama's attempts at advertising parody not funny anymore), and much purer (how about a family, community, slashdot, or special interest group TV show? Commercial free?)
As a side note, some of these patterns will most likely be evident in tonight's Frontline on PBS about the "persuasion industry" ... I'll be watching that one!
Anyway, start looking into this stuff, because it is what you make it. If you want to bitch about it, well, start your own damn TV show.
Right on! I agree with this. Second-hand smoke research, also, has been discredited outside of the US. Most in the world equate it to being near a running car.
But the capitalization of anti-smoking is, for now, gaining on smoking.
i know this is somewhat off topic, but thank you for your reply
!!! good point... People forget that the constitution says nothing about foreign affairs... wonder why the US is so seemingly authoritarian with respects to the world?
The BBC is looking into multicasting for UK isps... I remember these sorts of stories about Google and Ebay and others... Why can't we let IP block decide or .fr or similar? Let us not forget that France's child porn laws I hear are somewhat less than in the US... but also, they they and Germany were the only ones to have the balls to stand up against the US over Iraq, but perhaps that had something to do with oil for food... oh wait... shit... goddamn elections
I don't think so... in fact... encryption would just shout "hey! we're doing something secret! come triangulate us!" Some terrorist fund raising is done on the internet, in plain Arabic text... why hide? You'll just get less money.
Are we back to "better scheduling?" ... I thought that was a mainframe technology struggle...........
... if you had never heard of it and you read /. ... its probably nothing ;p
Why aren't these tourist glowing? Just curious... also... anyone have a radiation-level guide to old nukes, new nukes, "tactical" nukes?
I just released "torrentchanger" which is such bad and simple code, that it'd have to work with the mono project... ;p
http://writtorrent.sf.net
There's not even a link to ANY information ANYWHERE about actually ordering, or even a PRICE. Nice try, michael...
Actually, my free hosting, free-conversant.com doesn't have native RSS support (easily acheived through templating tho), but with its message-centric approach to content managent, it has native NNTP support. Seems to be the comments of most on here that NNTP is already there. Why not RSS over NNTP?
No, I don't think blogs themselves (with an average of 12 readers each) are very powerful. But combined with massive syndication and micro content searchable with keywords, a needle in the haystack could be felt.
You're right though, most bloggers (er... perhaps myself included) have a very high opinion of their content.
Actually, myRSS.com has a feed for Suprnova, and some guy (indexed by google) has a Python script for generating your own RSS feeds from Suprnova.
Slashdot rules their polling times with an iron fist!!! Not that they shouldn't mind you... hehe
I know its sort of a chicken / egg thing... but can someone explain exactly why BT itself can't be used to distribute torrents, or to share the bandwidth of tracking?
I don't want to sound too much like a sooth-sayer here, but I find that its becoming increasingly hard to find *good* knowledge... and what qualifies it as *good*? Is CNN good? Is Al-Jazeer? Is my neighbor's gossip? How about what my ex-girlfriends? What about my wife? What about... heheh you get what I mean.