Growing up on the Web: The web is really an amazing thing. I have raised 4 kids so far who have never known life without the web. I got it when it was first available in our area 11-12 years ago and still have that same e-mail address. So cool! As I have watched it develop I am constantly amazed at what people are doing with it. It is used for 95% of our communication (just a little with cellular, even less with postal). A ton of our entertainment is derived from the web. Recently my kids put up their first YouTube video, it was so exciting. The next morning they all got up to see that 10 people had seen it (as I write it is 50). They have had a comment and a couple of links to some folks at MySpace. So now they are hard at work on their next mini film.
I just uploaded my latest photograph, and thought about how cool that is. I shoot a picture, hook up my camera to my computer and a few minutes later it is there for the world to see. I did a picture a week or two back that my wife made me take down, but my dad saw it (and loved it). Then I got behind and put up a couple of days back to back, but in the 5-10 minutes it took me to put together the second picture someone had already seen the first and commented on how much they liked it. That was so amazing! A couple of weeks ago I was bloggin while driving home (kids, don't try that at home!) and when I got home Mary greeted me with "Nice post!" Wow, I published the blog when I was exciting the Interstate, twelve minutes later I was walking through the door.
There was a discussion a couple of days ago on where internet video is going to go. I think that places like YouTube are going to be the new TV for the next generation. User Generated Content will be it. There are so little start up costs, and the imaginations of some people are going to really be where we are watching. The comment on the podcast was that some people are already doing a better job at attracting viewers than the major networks are.
So kids, develop great stuff. It is going to be a great ride!
I just uploaded my latest photograph, and thought about how cool that is. I shoot a picture, hook up my camera to my computer and a few minutes later it is there for the world to see. I did a picture a week or two back that my wife made me take down, but my dad saw it (and loved it). Then I got behind and put up a couple of days back to back, but in the 5-10 minutes it took me to put together the second picture someone had already seen the first and commented on how much they liked it. That was so amazing! A couple of weeks ago I was bloggin while driving home (kids, don't try that at home!) and when I got home Mary greeted me with "Nice post!" Wow, I published the blog when I was exciting the Interstate, twelve minutes later I was walking through the door.
There was a discussion a couple of days ago on where internet video is going to go. I think that places like YouTube are going to be the new TV for the next generation. User Generated Content will be it. There are so little start up costs, and the imaginations of some people are going to really be where we are watching. The comment on the podcast was that some people are already doing a better job at attracting viewers than the major networks are.
So kids, develop great stuff. It is going to be a great ride!
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So is it safe to say that both you and your family are advocates of web 2.0? User supplied content can be pretty good!
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