Comments on: Me Too Usually Mean Peugh http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/09/22/me-too-usually-mean-peugh/ Insight and Analysis from North of the Border Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:06:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Erin http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/09/22/me-too-usually-mean-peugh/#comment-6944 Erin Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:28:08 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/09/22/me-too-usually-mean-peugh/#comment-6944 I was invited to participate in the beta, which I did as a lurker/viewer and occasional comment poster. I never really got into the whole thing mind you, probably because it didn't strike me as being new, interesting, and unique. The difference between live broadcast and non-live video sharing, to me, is minimal in today's internet culture. Few broadcasters at BlogTV.ca seemed to have the time to produce a show aired at a regularly scheduled time, and so audience building was difficult, if not impossible. Visitors to the site were thus bombarded with a hodge-podge of low quality videos, erratic programming, and unclear, restrictive channel assignments. The point against the lack of regular scheduling was that if you happened to miss an episode by your favourite broadcaster, that it was archived and you could click to view past, non-live shows. What you have in that case is.....YouTube. I was invited to participate in the beta, which I did as a lurker/viewer and occasional comment poster. I never really got into the whole thing mind you, probably because it didn’t strike me as being new, interesting, and unique.

The difference between live broadcast and non-live video sharing, to me, is minimal in today’s internet culture. Few broadcasters at BlogTV.ca seemed to have the time to produce a show aired at a regularly scheduled time, and so audience building was difficult, if not impossible. Visitors to the site were thus bombarded with a hodge-podge of low quality videos, erratic programming, and unclear, restrictive channel assignments.

The point against the lack of regular scheduling was that if you happened to miss an episode by your favourite broadcaster, that it was archived and you could click to view past, non-live shows. What you have in that case is…..YouTube.

]]> By: Jim Courtney http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/09/22/me-too-usually-mean-peugh/#comment-6942 Jim Courtney Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:00:22 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/09/22/me-too-usually-mean-peugh/#comment-6942 Here is a real problem for blogtv.ca. Earlier this week Jeff Pulver was asking people to watch his blogtv broadcast, so I type in the URL he gave -- blogtv.com/Shows/96 - and what do I get? A redirect to blogtv.ca with access to only Canadian content. Come on guys and gals, the Internet ignores borders -- especially when you're trying to launch a service that needs user generated content. If I can't get content from my US acquaintances, (or from anywhere else worldwide), I'm not going to use the service. Do a search at blogtv.ca on Pulver or Scoble and you come up dry. Blogtv.ca executives must be ex-CRTC people, thinking they know better than I what is good for Canadians to see. Tonight I could still get blogtv.ca but if they are going off the air, they deserve to die. Here is a real problem for blogtv.ca. Earlier this week Jeff Pulver was asking people to watch his blogtv broadcast, so I type in the URL he gave — blogtv.com/Shows/96 - and what do I get? A redirect to blogtv.ca with access to only Canadian content. Come on guys and gals, the Internet ignores borders — especially when you’re trying to launch a service that needs user generated content. If I can’t get content from my US acquaintances, (or from anywhere else worldwide), I’m not going to use the service.

Do a search at blogtv.ca on Pulver or Scoble and you come up dry.

Blogtv.ca executives must be ex-CRTC people, thinking they know better than I what is good for Canadians to see. Tonight I could still get blogtv.ca but if they are going off the air, they deserve to die.

]]> By: Brad http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/09/22/me-too-usually-mean-peugh/#comment-6937 Brad Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:06:28 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/09/22/me-too-usually-mean-peugh/#comment-6937 You have a mistake. It is not a video sharing service. it is a live broadcast service and it is successful in the US. You have a mistake.
It is not a video sharing service. it is a live broadcast service and it is successful in the US.

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