MICHAEL VERDI » Lucky
Michael Verdi, Ryanne and others started videoblogging about a year ago, and the looking-back type videos are starting to come out.
Videoblogging has really been an amazing adventure so far. Here's to another year of this. Let's hope thousands, if not millions of people discover this as a hobby, as a way to connect, as a new art form. (Not as a business model, that's not what we're talking about here.) The videoblogging community has a real voice, and real values, and I hope those don't get dilluted too much in the coming year. I've always felt podcasters are more commercial. Maybe it's because they have Adam Curry and we have Jay Dedman. Leaders really set the values for a movement. Maybe it's because of that name - podcsting - that implies a particular, commercial player, who seems to have co-opted the movement. (Lightnet might provide some hope there.) Who knows.
In any case, here's to another year of videoblogging. May we not sell out, may we believe in the power of individual voices speaking truth and connecting. May we shave a few minutes of the average 4 hours the American watches television every day.