vlogging talking points

	We want people to be addicted to their neighbours, to themselves
	What happens if the next tsunami hits, or the US attacks another country, and we can hear the voices of the people involved?
	Your favourite TV channel will be someone you know.
	What will we watch on our cellphones? Seinfeld re-runs?
	We aren't creating tools, we're creating a channel, a network, an audience.
	Even though they're "badly produced" in conventional terms, vlogs are strangely fascinating? Why? Because you don't see true voices on regular tv.
	We're building an ecology of tools and practices.
	This might still go wrong. What is "wrong"? When it becomes marginal entertainment, instead of true voices speaking.
	Vlogs won't replace TV. But they'll take away part of the attention.
	I want to see Chomsky talking about Bush's speech. Politics happens on the couch.
	I want Prakash from Tibet to show us his country and his life.
	Weirdly, bandwidth has turned out not to be the problem we thought it would be.
	There is a HUGE amount of people who really, really want to put their video content out there.
	We've had cheap cameras since the 70s or 80s, but apart from showing things to our friends in the living room, we never had a real audience for the work we did.
	Big media is doing 'portals' and dumping their 'content'. Wrong.

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