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Reuters CEO lauds MySpace, Stupidvideos -- and Ourmedia
From today's Jossip:
Over at Forbes it's Rich Karlgaard reporting from the Heathrow airport in London that puts a little extra step on our day.He was mediating a panel discussion about the internet in which Tom Glocer [photo above], CEO of Reuters, explains how consumers want to create their own media, internet is changing, bloggers, yada yada. And then he busted out (yep!) his MySpace profile.
Glocer told the audience of 260 gathered at the Landmark Hotel to study three websites that herald the consumer-driven future: www.myspace.com; www.stupidvideos.com; and www.ourmedia.org. Glocer showed us his own blog page on myspace.The media world has been changed forever, Glocer said, by the Internet's scale of distribution and by the phenomenal ease of search ...
March 2, 2006 at 11:26 PM in Ourmedia | Permalink
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This is the exact image that independent media, distributed via the internet, needs to outgrow. Stupidvideos.com is exactly what corporate media would LOVE be the future of online content, because it isn't a threat to them. It's low quality crap produced by untalented people. I know it's harsh, but for much we-produced content to date, this has been the overwhelming majority of online video.
The future is QUALITY content- QUALITY podcast series like Tiki Bar TV. Eventually, the online audience will grow tired of its own brand of America's Funniest Home Videos, and realize that there is far more worthy entertaiment. Then, guys like this will sweat.
Posted by: FFSTV at Mar 3, 2006 1:19:37 PM
