Although I cannot speak from experience, I haven't been terribly popular online lately. I guess I haven't been marketing myself in the right way, mainly because of online abuse. I don't want to be a sexbot or participate in sexchat. I'm a video producer and editor, and no I don't want to produce porn or capitalize from the Internet sex trade, just like I wouldn't want to be a twenty dollar hooker working the late shift. Sorry guys. So I'm extremely hopeful that viral video, Internet television and new media will finally drowned that appalling "Hollywood" standard that women have to be young and sexy to get people to watch. As a matter of fact, you don't have to be a professional videographer either. A simple webcam will do.
Viewing YouTube, I met a scottish man taking his moral inventory, as I stumbled upon his very personal broadcast of philosophical thought. It's not perfect video, it doesn't have to be. People are communicating, that's what it's all about. It was scary because I realized how much Scot I have in my bloodline, he looks just like my father. I left him a comment that his music was too loud. I had a hard time hearing his voice over Pink Floyd on his radio. No copyright worries, I imagine.
However, I have also just recieved from the Post Master Direct, via yahoo mail (uhum), an invitation to recieve a free White Paper "Making the Case for Social Strategy" published by Cymfony, a media intelligence research firm. Why does this interest me? How did they know I was accumulating the information on this concept? Interesting. This should be common knowledge now, and for many website hosts, online communities, software designers and advertising firms, it is. I just wonder if the general public understands it. It's a relatively harmless matter; everything you type into a database, all that information gets to the right advertisers and they inquire with you. A few years ago, it was called push technology.
Today, push and pull technologies have evolved and found their nitch in social networks like Myspace, Blogs and now Video Sharing. Provided by DigitalMediaWire, news that Buzznet, fastest growing social network site, according to research, just raised 6 million in venture capital. Darling, the possibilities seem boundless.
If people are truly not concerned with allowing countless strangers into their bedrooms to openly talk about almost anything, maybe the controversy over online privacy is ready for bed?
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