[IMC-Video] Democratic Media

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This is an interesting article following similar lines to those  
discussed here

What the MySpace generation should know about working for free
http://www.re-public.gr/en/wp-print.php?p=138

On 08/07/2007, at 3:52 PM, Michael Eisenmenger wrote:

> When YouTube sold to Google for 1.65 billion, that amounted to  
> approx. $5000 per YouTube user. Television has always been based on  
> the model of selling 'viewers' to 'advertisers', now in the online  
> environment,  'users' and content producers' are aggregated and  
> sold to potential advertisers/marketeers.
>
> I still believe it's better to build your own networks - no matter  
> how small, otherwise you're feeding the machine that sells you.
>
> Michael
>
> COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
>> what is happening is like the googleizon  video hat was made about  
>> the future.....
>>
>> this is the  interesting fictional but prophetic video
>>
>> EPIC 2014
>> You're about to watch a future history of the media by Robin Sloan  
>> and Matt Thompson, with music by Aaron McLeran. Click here to  
>> watch EPIC 2014! ...
>> www.robinsloan.com/epic/ - 5k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
>>
>>  that is why of  course is good to keep your own servers on line  
>> but...
>> USE THEM THE MAINSTREAM ALSO... if you an get content on there   
>> remember it can be
>> used to point back to your own independent server in the notes and  
>> urls
>>  with he  video on their page.. ( I keep repeating myself eh?)
>>
>>
>> ed
>> In a message dated 7/7/2007 12:28:49 P.M. US Mountain Standard  
>> Time, and at axxs.org writes:
>>
>> On 06/07/2007, at 6:13 PM, steve at coanews.org wrote:
>>
>> > Check out this video about saving democratic media:
>> > http://democraticmedia.ca/blog-entry/stop-big-media-takeover-video
>>
>> Interesting that you chose to put a video about the big media take
>> over on YouTube. I guess the conversation of late has been discussing
>> the fact that YouTube IS the new big media. I can't entirely explain
>> why but activists really seem to have lowered their guard in terms of
>> using the new corporate media. Obviously it's quite different,
>> corporate media didn't used to distribute almost anyones content but
>> there is a quite disturbing relationship emerging where once all the
>> corporate media did was sell our eyes to advertisers, now they take
>> our content (and our thoughts and feelings) and our social networks
>> and sell our labour (and eyes) to advertisers (or data mine our
>> online personalities for marketing companies).
>>
>> The new corporate media seem to be becoming even more centralised
>> than the old version. Does any one media company dominate the global
>> TV market to the same extent that Google/YouTube dominate the online
>> video space? A few giant landlords are really starting to dominate
>> this space, they give us a patch of virtual earth to cultivate our
>> content and social networks and take the vast majority of the value
>> for themselves.
>>
>> Because we're such small fish in such a big pond we never seem to
>> notice they are making so much money from our us, after all we got a
>> global distribution network out of the deal and some pretty cool
>> features alternative media aren't offering, which we're all currently
>> aware of.
>>
>> That's probably a long enough rant for now. Slightly more thought out
>> thoughts along similar lines here
>> http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/andrewl/news/freebeer/
>>
>> Cheers.
>> And.
>>
>> > pass it on to every Canadian you know!
>> >
>> > Steve
>> >
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