Paul Bradshaw, via seesmic.com
Paul Bradshaw posted a video asking how journos could use Seesmic. (Click to watch the video and view responses.)
I've been playing with Seesmic once again. (It's a conversational video-sharing service, somewhat like Twitter meets YouTube.) I briefly dabbled with an alpha invitation to Seesmic a few months ago and stupidly wrote it off as a vague video blogging platform. It isn't. Seesmic is social . And I think that's very important. Seesmic is, for me, a symptom of how media is changing. It is a symptom of how video has become as inexpensive and disposable as e-mail. It is a symptom of a generation of people who are completely comfortable with visual media, and how they are rewriting that grammar. It is also a new and important part of the personal distributed media ecosystem that we are gathering around us. This stretches from a person's Facebook profile to their Twitter account, their blog, and Flickr and YouTube accounts. Just as not everyone is on Flickr, not everyone will end up on Seesmic -- but many will, and you'll need to know how to talk to them. Don't mistake Seesmic for another YouTube. Seesmic is to YouTube what Twitter is to blogging. Key to this is the fact that Seesmic works with your Twitter account -- so that new Seesmic posts are cross-posted on Twitter, and video replies are even cross-posted @ the other person's name (allowing you to discover them on ...
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Paul Bradshaw, via seesmic.com
Paul Bradshaw posted a video asking how journos could use Seesmic. (Click to watch the video and view responses.)
I've been playing with Seesmic once again. (It's a conversational video-sharing service, somewhat like Twitter meets YouTube.) I briefly dabbled with an alpha invitation to Seesmic a few months ago and stupidly wrote it off as a vague video blogging platform. It isn't. Seesmic is social . And I think that's very important. Seesmic is, for me, a symptom of how media is changing. It is a symptom of how video has become as inexpensive and disposable as e-mail. It is a symptom of a generation of people who are completely comfortable with visual media, and how they are rewriting that grammar. It is also a new and important part of the personal distributed media ecosystem that we are gathering around us. This stretches from a person's Facebook profile to their Twitter account, their blog, and Flickr and YouTube accounts. Just as not everyone is on Flickr, not everyone will end up on Seesmic -- but many will, and you'll need to know how to talk to them. Don't mistake Seesmic for another YouTube. Seesmic is to YouTube what Twitter is to blogging. Key to this is the fact that Seesmic works with your Twitter account -- so that new Seesmic posts are cross-posted on Twitter, and video replies are even cross-posted @ the other person's name (allowing you to discover them on ...