Look ma, we don’t need TV!
I read this somewhere:
Television is dead, long live the web!
Not quite, but with TV audiences dwindling and interest in online video content on the rise, it seems that audiences don't just want to watch TV shows any more - they want to make and star in them too. Dubbed Web 2.0 there's been an explosion in sites that promote freedom to share and use content driven by the user. Microsoft want a piece of the action, launching a user generated video service for MSN called Soapbox. Hardly surprising when sites like YouTube have become such popular web destinations.
Now… this is something that was bound to happen… why on earth would people just restrict themselves to being self-obsessed bloggers? If they are creating the content, putting pieces of themselves online; it was just a matter of time before they got greedy and wanted to flaunt the whole picture. And that’s exactly what’s come to pass! Since most of us poor band-width challenged souls can’t afford to have broadband connections and more importantly, since many more of us still don’t have computers at home, the trend hasn’t caught on in India yet. But I can hear the lull before the storm already. Vanity is perpetually hip and the need to express one self through home-grown films is going to replace the never-ending soaps… with narcissistic ramblings or I-me-myself footage... The war has only begun.
P.S: I'm all for new talents to come to the fore with the opening up of these avenues but as we all know, great artists or creators are needles in the haystack of what we call the world.
Television is dead, long live the web!
Not quite, but with TV audiences dwindling and interest in online video content on the rise, it seems that audiences don't just want to watch TV shows any more - they want to make and star in them too. Dubbed Web 2.0 there's been an explosion in sites that promote freedom to share and use content driven by the user. Microsoft want a piece of the action, launching a user generated video service for MSN called Soapbox. Hardly surprising when sites like YouTube have become such popular web destinations.
Now… this is something that was bound to happen… why on earth would people just restrict themselves to being self-obsessed bloggers? If they are creating the content, putting pieces of themselves online; it was just a matter of time before they got greedy and wanted to flaunt the whole picture. And that’s exactly what’s come to pass! Since most of us poor band-width challenged souls can’t afford to have broadband connections and more importantly, since many more of us still don’t have computers at home, the trend hasn’t caught on in India yet. But I can hear the lull before the storm already. Vanity is perpetually hip and the need to express one self through home-grown films is going to replace the never-ending soaps… with narcissistic ramblings or I-me-myself footage... The war has only begun.
P.S: I'm all for new talents to come to the fore with the opening up of these avenues but as we all know, great artists or creators are needles in the haystack of what we call the world.
posted by ironyofdparadox at 7:06 pm
1 Comments:
The string of coincidences continues. Just this past weekend, I wrote a piece called "Look Ma, no head"
I agree with you. I've always found blogging a particularly vain enterprise. And now, with the advent of other methods, we'll take the preening to another level. And gaze adoringly at our alter egos sitting pretty on the altars we've perched them on.
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