Video on the web
[photo: lifted from cover me, lifted from New York Times]
Okay...so I want to watch Stephen Colbert's brilliant talk at the White House dinner, so I go to YouTube, which is down temporarily...but lucky for me, a friend has forwarded me another link that links to this 'Viral Video' site (don't get sucked in by the orgy, it isn't that interesting - but the Japanese game show is uber fascinating), which has broken the talk down into 3 parts for easy download. So, I start watching it, but it's so slow and choppy that I get a bit frustrated...and that's where Chris jumps in, downloads stuff like Democracy and Acquisition and this other thing that makes parcels of some sort and then does a search for a torrent and finds a couple of sites, but knows which one to actually click on, which goes to my downloads and then we have to drop it into Acquisition (I think the Democracy part comes later, but I'm not sure) and something about the parcel thingy that I still don't understand. Then Acquisition tells me that it will take 23 days or something because there is one seed, so I go back to the 'Viral Video' site and wait it out.
Turns out that the brilliant talk is pretty damn brilliant. (it's worth the wait)
But, man, there is a reason I don't download and watch alot of video on the web. This stuff isn't built for humans.
[tags: stephencolbert, video, democracy]
3 Comments:
Oh, you've just gotta know where to look.
http://onegoodmove.org/
That site has some good video of Colbert and the Daily show. Scroll down a bit to the post from a couple of days ago and he's listed a 60 minutes show of Colbert. I think he's also got the full video clips there too of the speech from the other night if you missed those parts.
You got that right... The Colbert speech was C-SPAN created (thank God, otherwise it may never have been seen) but an obvious concern of big media is: "should we let people possess the bits or just experience them". The former means distribution of content via DVD, iTunes video, download, etc. and the later means distribution of content via streams or flashvideo via the web. In my view there is still much confusion and uncertainty about "when to use which method" so the "bleeding egde" of net video is bloody indeed.
You got that right... The Colbert speech was C-SPAN created (thank God, otherwise it may never have been seen) but an obvious concern of big media is: "should we let people possess the bits or just experience them". The former means distribution of content via DVD, iTunes video, download, etc. and the later means distribution of content via streams or flashvideo via the web. In my view there is still much confusion and uncertainty about "when to use which method" so the "bleeding egde" of net video is bloody indeed.
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