I am using this new iWeb program from Apple and I will admit, I am liking it.  I don’t have the time to get down, get down with stylesheets and scripting and whatevering and all that, I just need to be able to enter in journal entries without too much of a headache.  You can still read via an RSS reader, of course, though I am losing the LiveJournal aspects of the site, which I am not sure anyone actually used anyway.

 

I am going to republish my last two entries, in proper order, in this entry.  

 

 

 

 

So, from an audience/"content is king" point of view, YouTube's the way of the future and will never go away.  

 

 

Well, the good thing is that people like them (like me, dammit), know when to RELAX and stop DOING SO MUCH CRAP and just watch a movie.  Which, as you probably know, is a dying art these days.  When was the last time you sat down and watched a movie from beginning to end in one sitting?  I hope it was recently.  I haven't done it in months.  I just don't have the time.

 

Of course, the movie/tv makers like me a lot.  I buy my movies and I actually think it's good to buy them as opposed to pirating them.  Of course, I am an LA actor that just wants to work in an age (and location)  where every other week you see headlines about how TV and movies are dying and good riddance.  

 

Such a strange tension, really.  People want to be entertained and they are getting pretty used to getting it however they want, on the TV, on an iPod, on their computer, on their damn phone...but they get all pissy when you ask them to pay for it.  Or, studios deliver the content for cheap ("Lost", etc) before figuring out how to pay the people who made the show in the first place.  Great questions--great, era-specific questions (my favorite)--that everyone is trying to answer.  

 

 

And how are we going to quantify entertainment?  The Al Gore sketch that I referenced above from SNL--what did I just do when I provided that link? I mean, no one at NBC got paid..but I mean, it was only a few minutes from the entire show.  Should people pay for a fraction of a "packaged/whole" piece of media?  

 

I think they should, to be honest. 2 cents. a penny.  Not much.  But someone's gotta get paid if people expect new stuff to get made.  

 

(And if gas continues to get more and more expensive, will this drive up the desire for this kind of experience?  If it costs so much to drive to the theatre...)

 

so many questions!

 

a night passes...

 

So, I was thinking about what I wrote yesterday about the whole YouTube "fractional entertainment/integrated entertainment" vs. "HDTV/theatre experience" and I realize that the trends I thought about were probably too specific to people on the coasts/urban areas and people that are about, oh, 23 and under.  

 

I think right now, the baby boomers and the majority of regular people are more than happy to come home from work and sit down and watch TV for rest of the night without doing anything else at all.  I DO think there is a sizable minority for which this kind of experience is played out and not as fulfilling/interesting as being able to watch whatever they wanna watch, whenever they wanna watch it, while they chat with their friends, surf the web, write a blog...whatever.  It should be really interesting to see what things are like in about 10-15 years, how the possibility of media will be integrated into every possible activity.  We can see it already, of course, with TVs/Internet stations in refrigerators, showers, etc.  (I think I first started noticing this multi-tasking when I went to hotel and saw a phone by the toilet.)

 

Anyway, more later!