Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Internet is... interesting



Surfing around I happened to go to Viddler.com and they suggested I should watch the video above. So I did, and as you can see it's a women doing a mini chicken dance at a coffe shop, and it turned out that she's also broadcasting herself live on the Internet (ijustine.tv). Nothing really new with live web cams, but I've heard a lot about people airing their full life lately. I understand what's driving them to do so, which of course is the hope for fame, money and also some kind of narcissism, like your everyday very personal blog on steroids.

However, whereas a personal blog might be really interesting, watching someone work isn't. Well, obviously it is, but not to me. With a written blog the author can write down the quintessence of his or her thoughts, or even just that day's most interesting events. This obviously isn't happening when you go live 24/7, so who's watching it?

Some would say that just as the live video of someone typing is a bit meaningless and not as interesting as a written blog, the blog would be just as much worse than a magazine article, a novel or a book.
Services as twitter has shown that high frequency and short messages is somewhat favoured by some to in-depth articles when communication. The 24/7 web cam would be the extreme of this trend, since you have an infinite frequency (periodicity of 0) of messages with almost no content at all.

What might be even more interesting is that this as well is another side of the democratic Internet. [Prepare for something already written 1000 times before]
People can now reach the same fame, or product marketing, as only huge companies where able to create before the Internet.

Will "democratic" and not capital dictated fame last or is this just a beautiful and interesting phase of the Internet?

[Parentheses: The "plot" in some of Justine's videos happens to circle around IPhone. Either she was very excited about IPhone, or it's a lighter version of "Lindsay Lohan driving drunk while using her IPhone"-phenomena. Not that I think it's wrong to get an audience to your blog or personal TV-network, even if the methods sometimes are a little bit too obvious ;-)]

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