If you hate Live Blogging, get a load of this

Just as the last aftershocks of the live blogging debate I instigated start to subside comes live Video casting tomorrow morning at the Web 2.0 conference. My Podtech pals Scoble and Jeremiah will be walking around with a UStream TV video system just like Justin.

Justin is sort of a reverse Truman Show.  In the incredible Jim Carey movie, Truman did not realize his entire life was being arranged for a TV audience.  Justin is the audience as he records everything he witnesses.

I think what PodTech is doing has more real-time application and the implications to video citizen journalism are significant. I just find irony in it all.  At the New Communications Forum, I was accused of disrupting a speaker by the clicking of my keyboard as I live blogged.

I just wonder what these very same people are going to think when they see these geeks with cameras walking into the conference presentations. What happens when UStream gets popular and there are as many cameras in the room as there are clickers on keyboards.

Heh.

Comments

[Chris Yeh]

Shel,

Always great to have you join the conversation. As an investor in Ustream, it's my contention that the market for "lifecasting" a la Justin.TV is tiny in comparison to the overall market for live video. It's the live aspect that is compelling, not the always-on, 24/7 banality.

I've been pleased to follow Ustream's development, but I must admit, a part of me is worried that someday people will say that I was the guy who ended up funding the 24/7 Paris Hilton channel. Bring on the apocalypse!

[Matteo Fabiano]

In entertainment media, content "density" is what matters. Good stories will always be valuable, no matter how they are produced and distributed. If lifecasting-for-entertainment is to succeed, it will require 1) a live production apparatus with tight schedules, planning, etc. to guarantee quality, targeting and relevance and/or 2) a simple way to enable users to sift through the massive amount of unuseable filler to find and consume the few valuable clips.

[Lal]

Was interested 2c him walking along (doing his stuff) and meeting people.
Must checkout (anyone doing some 'snippets'/outtakes?) what he 'produced'

Brendan Lally