Shooting War is an online comic - stated off with a very well done animation, that feels just like a true news teaser. In it you get to follow the adventures of one Jimmy Burns, a video-logger who happens to be in the right/wrong place at the right/wrong time with his camera running and uploading footage.
So what happens when everyday people end up in events way beyond their control and comfort zone? What happens to media when the boundaries between participant, journalist and bystander evaporates? And what happens when everything is online, globally, instantaneously ? How do we cope, how do we filter out the noise - and can we still find some sense in the overflowing channels?
And on the Media 3.0 blog, Shelly Palmer has an interesting piece on Content vs TV - be sure to check back in a while as well, since they promise to be: "publishing a paper that deconstructs the Long Tail for the online video business in a few weeks"
Best part - a quote very similar to one of my pet peeves: "YouTube is not a place … it is an application." Basically, YouTube is not about the content or the discussion/flamewars/spamlinks, it is about enablement and letting go of control - because they did not have a stake to loose in terms of viewers, ads or pageviews.
Because it was as easy as copying a link into email or msn, as easy as inserting an achor or an img tag in a blog, YouTube became a basic building block of the net - enabling millions to see video, and also to post videos with ease. The new "direct capure" from webcam is just the latest step in that direction, just like this Blogger window enables me to blog effortlessly, remotely and for free.
