We are watching this very closely on our site http://shipwreckcentral.com/livedive.htm since we have plans to beef up the "Live from the Dive" video blog section when we enter our phase two in January. I've even coined a term for the type of person we are looking for, a "videoblographer".
We currently use video in the blog section to report back from the shoots that we do for our TV production "The Sea Hunters". Occasionally, if we make the Daily Show (yeah!) or are covered in some other media we'll put that up as well. Our future plans include a video blogging crew that will travel with the TV production team, both reporting on the progress of the shipwreck hunt, but also self-generating material depending on where in the world we are sending them.
Our latest video, posted today, was a Q and A session we did with Clive Cussler, one of our team members. Yes, we could have simply transcribed it and entered it as text, (we summarize it for the benefit of the robots), but when the content is compelling (which we hope the clip would be for Cussler fans) we see no good reason not to make it available as video. Is it a true blog or something else? I don't know.
Maybe our situation is somewhat unique in that we are already in the television production business, but in creating ShipwreckCentral.com we always planned for video to be a major part of the site. In the future, when we add a paid subscribers area, it will become an even greater part of our offerings. Since video is what we are about it only makes sense for us to utilize it in our blog.
When I see that Bittorent traffic constitutes a third of the Internet's bandwidth it reinforces in my mind that direct paid video distribution over the net will work. Remember when people said that Napster users would never pay for music? Then the iTunes music store came along and proved most everybody wrong, (including many slashdotters). We foresee the same type of dynamic happening with video. We'll be using a subscription model since DVD compilations are in the works, but will also incorporate some type of micropayment system for the web only offerings, perhaps Ultramercials such as Salon.com has. (If any/.ers have suggestions on that I'd love to hear them.
Hey, if you've read this far and pay us a visit, be sure to check out the interactive shipwreck map, and if you have any comments on the site (or gripes about video format) be sure to leave us word in the forums.
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We currently use video in the blog section to report back from the shoots that we do for our TV production "The Sea Hunters". Occasionally, if we make the Daily Show (yeah!) or are covered in some other media we'll put that up as well. Our future plans include a video blogging crew that will travel with the TV production team, both reporting on the progress of the shipwreck hunt, but also self-generating material depending on where in the world we are sending them.
Our latest video, posted today, was a Q and A session we did with Clive Cussler, one of our team members. Yes, we could have simply transcribed it and entered it as text, (we summarize it for the benefit of the robots), but when the content is compelling (which we hope the clip would be for Cussler fans) we see no good reason not to make it available as video. Is it a true blog or something else? I don't know.
Maybe our situation is somewhat unique in that we are already in the television production business, but in creating ShipwreckCentral.com we always planned for video to be a major part of the site. In the future, when we add a paid subscribers area, it will become an even greater part of our offerings. Since video is what we are about it only makes sense for us to utilize it in our blog.
When I see that Bittorent traffic constitutes a third of the Internet's bandwidth it reinforces in my mind that direct paid video distribution over the net will work. Remember when people said that Napster users would never pay for music? Then the iTunes music store came along and proved most everybody wrong, (including many slashdotters). We foresee the same type of dynamic happening with video. We'll be using a subscription model since DVD compilations are in the works, but will also incorporate some type of micropayment system for the web only offerings, perhaps Ultramercials such as Salon.com has. (If any /.ers have suggestions on that I'd love to hear them.
Hey, if you've read this far and pay us a visit, be sure to check out the interactive shipwreck map, and if you have any comments on the site (or gripes about video format) be sure to leave us word in the forums.