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May 10, 2006
More Online Video Links
Via Green Cine, a series of Wired articles on the "online video explosion." I'm not sure they add anything new to my understanding of online video (although they provide some nice pointers to online video sites I hadn't seen), but it's nice to see online video (or blogging or social networking sites) represented as something relatively safe or banal rather than as a threat to civil discourse or a danger to children.
Local news stations here in DC have been relentlessly repeating the idea that sites such as MySpace are constantly placing children in danger, and I'm still not quite sure how to read these "news" stories. I don't think it makes sense to argue that the TV news broadcasters see Internet sites such as MySpace as competition. After all, many of these news stories appear on the local, somewhat tabloid-y Fox News affiliate, and Fox is owned by News Corp, which also owns MySpace. I could likely comment further but should probably get some other writing done.
Oh, while I'm thinking about it, my favorite radio station, KEXP in Seattle, now has a blog.
Posted by chuck at May 10, 2006 12:49 PM
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