Honesty
Posted on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 at 8:41 pm. #
I’ve been wondering why I watch comparatively little video online. And I think I’ve hit on the answer.
From a recent blog from Robert Scoble:
What was really fun was having raclette cheese dinner with famous author Bruce Sterling. Of course I intruded on the dinner with my cell phone camera. It’s a 40 minute video … it doesn’t get interesting until about 13 minutes when Bruce tells us the difference between a blogger and a novelist.
I note Scoble’s joining Fast Company, which apparently (from their metadata) “covers the new economy and workplace for people who believe in fusing tough-minded performance with human values.” I hope one of the tough-minded performance issues that Scoble sorts is his expectation that people will willingly sit through 13 minutes of dull, badly-shot video before anything “interesting” happens.
He comes across on TWIT as a nice guy – but since he believes editing is just too-cool-for-school, I’m sure he won’t mind that I’ve just edited him out of my Google Reader list. I’d rather read stuff from people that respect my time, and yours.
Photo: Finn Pröpper. Used under licence.
Fastcompany.tv will be edited.
Qik videos are done with a cell phone and are impossible to edit. You won’t get video of that dinner any other way and I don’t think it was a waste of time at all. You can scrub to what I told you were the interesting points anyway.