Where do we go from here?
Rupert asked some good questions here. Here is One take on what he said:
Now, I don’t know where this will take us. If the internet will be outlawed in 2012, or if it will be split into a zillion internets, each with their own economic structure, or if it will be the key to true exchange of opinions across the world. I DO know that we need to be less afraid. All of us.
frames
what comes before
what comes after
we are very used to narratives
like
beginning
tension rising
climax
end
now, what do we remember the most?
it’s like a list of companies in a telephone book.
do we take more notice to what comes first?
a list of names responsible for a project
a list of topics that are important for our world.
what if words drown in words?
what if the questions we have drown in themselves?
what if we pay so much attention on - for instance - form that we lose the juice?
I just made a video:
it is an edited version of this.
frames of mind.
my mind is oozing. not a pleasant feeling. something triggered in me when he beat my head into the floor. tick. ticked. triggered. so i have been trying to see new frames. set new frames for my thoughts and emotions and actions and wishes/hopes. i still like to ask questions, but i realize that i dont proclaim them as much. that is a bad sign, right? soon I might just as well become a bitter man, hunchback, who just sits around waiting for the grave to meet him. bah.
videoblogging to me is just memories recorded. too bad we have this urge to share our memories, while at the same time we want to keep them sacred. to ourselves. they are OURS. don’t you mess with my memory, even if your version is teh truth.
it is summer, it is weekend, but it is raining, and chilly, and i want the sun to come back, and i want to feel like all of this matters, again. like it really matters if i make that one more movie, or a hundred more. so many conversations we just lose track of, because so much comes after them.
The Cult of the Vlog
I just realized today that apparently, in September 2005, there was an article about me in the online version of Corriere della Sera, an Italian newspaper. With the help of babelfish, I could read the article and I read that at one place the author of the article, Francesco Tortora, called all of this “the cult of the vlog”. Haha!
The amusing thing is that I guess the same Corriere della Sera have written at least a dozen articles about the wonder of Youtube and the Google billion dollar deal.
Today, videoblogging is far from a cult, but rather something every major player wants to get a piece of the action on. The question, for me, is if some of the principles of the old ‘cult’ will still survive.
Someone said some time ago on a mailinglist that videoblogging is in itself just a fad, and that video on the net will surely be there, but that it will look like - yes - again I mention myheavy.com
Ok, I guess I am disgusted by Myheavy. Just Look at this! I should make a screencast with audio narration surfing sites such as this.
Darknet
Some time ago I purchased J.D. Lasica’s book “Darknet: Hollywood’s War against the Digital Generation”. I am currently reading it, and it is one of the books I will cover here on DLTQ.
According to Wikipedia, a Darknet is “a private virtual network where users connect only to people they trust.”
The wikipedia article refers to ‘lightnet’, and also touches upon several other issues. Of course, Lasica’s book is more comprehensive and it asks some important questions about the future of ‘the digital generation’.
I will go more into detail in Lasica’s book later, but for now the question is: Do we need darknets in the vlogosphere? Do we need it in a situation where whatever I publish on a blog, especially if it is hosted on Blip.tv it seems, might get used for commercial reasons by Myheavy or whatever other new Youtube-wannabe company that is out to get some content for their advertisers.
I have not checked out spinxpress in a long time, but I am interested in how that would work as one example of a closed-circuit network. Have you tried out spinxpress? How does it work for you? I will try out the new spinxpress 2 version sometime this week.
Myself, I generally believe more in lightnets. Of information being spread without walled gardens and gatekeepers.
Lightnet are like open source software where anyone is invited to participate where the darknets are more like the proprietary systems regulated by invitation and social networks. Of course, on Kazaa, any teenage fool could get on and download the latest Britney Spears, but I am talking about real darknets; the small, tight-knit groups that work largely on trust.
It will be interesting to see how the different networks develop, and how the mainstream media as well as individuals will meet the challenges ahead.
If you, in the spirit of free information, let information loose that others then abuse, how often would you then deep inside feel a wish that you could - after all - somehow control the flow of information?