It is arguable whether The Buggles were anywhere near correct. To be fair, Viacom killed MTV, so there is that. Anyway, all the talk of Tik-Tok and other such video outlets has now led all of us down an interesting time line.
First, there was Periscope, then along came Vine, Facebook video was coming along and now there is Instagram Reels. There is something they all have in common. First, they are all platforms for disposable video and the second is that they are not YouTube. Big differences here.
In this episode, Ric takes you down this timeline and looks at the one psychological thing that is driving all of these platforms.
Being connected seems to be bringing about all sorts of innovative tech. All of it is designed to keep you on the platform you are using it from. Be it Facebook, Twitter or Google, none of those companies want you to go anywhere else. As consumers, we certainly do have a bunch of options when it comes to this sort of thing and that can be good.
Some you pay for (Zoom) and others are free (Facebook & Google). But how would you define "free". Also, as cool as it is to have this technology in your hands, is it really something we all need? Is anybody actually any good at using this stuff? Does it really matter? In theory, you could answer all those questions with a "no".
Plus, Ric has been in the studio quite a bit this past week. Along with all the extra work he has picked up and the usual slate of shows, his voice is going out. It's the return of the dreaded laryngitis. But he will tell you all about the other things he has on his plate as well.
You probably don't give too much thought about how your videos come to you. It's all about format. Much like last week's episode about audio format, in this episode, Ric takes you through a very abbreviated history of how moving pictures came to you.
Starting with the basics of film and the transition to digital devices to the latest in video technologies. Have we reached peaked video? Not so fast, all eyes are on the one industry who have been guiding the advancement through the years and you are probably not going to believe your ears when you hear who is behind it all. Plus, Ric's unpopular thought and more.
I, like most Americans had enough of the cable companies grip on my television. So, we cut the cord several years ago. Finally, TV on our own terms. That was, until the lumbering corporate dinosaurs got smart and started bundling up your favorites again. Yeah, right back into the same old boat. Paying for stuff you'll never watch. Thanks.
Also, is everyone kind of tired of the raw, unfiltered, uncensored live streams in social media? Australia is and they want to put some corporate people in jail over that stuff.
William Charles of the William Charles Collective stopped in to Radio Memphis last week. He and bassist Matt wanted to play a couple of tunes on the air. They also wanted to talk about the new vlog page on YouTube.
It was a good time and an interesting look at the business of vlogging. William also shot some stuff about Radio Memphis for an upcoming episode of his show.
Also, a discussion about Thanksgiving and bonus music from Butch Mudbone.
Cameras are everywhere. Your assumption of privacy goes away when you are in public. To fight criminal activity, cameras are everywhere. In some places, they are in neighborhoods. You are being watched everywhere you go and in some exceptional cases, even at home.
In this episode, I get into the whole idea of how we have incorporated cameras into everything. Which begs the question, how much of your privacy are you willing to sacrifice for your safety?
Also, in an interesting twist of fate, this episode marks the first episode we video taped and put on to YouTube. Yes, this show now has a YouTube channel (welcome to the party, pal. I know). But there is a difference between the above show and the video version.
The audio version, as has always been here, is the full show. Nothing different. The video version has been edited to remove the featured song we have been putting in here of late. This is because of YouTube's weirdness when it comes to music. Long story, but the scanning software utilized by YouTube will hijack the channel in an effort to monetize it for an artists distribution company even though we would have permission to feature that artist.
As a result, we decided it would be best to leave the song solely in the realm of the audio only version of the show.
The trade off? The two live read commercials in the audio only version have been taken out of the video version. Make sense?
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NEXT WEEK: Don't Be So Dramatic. Plus music from Nutbush Superstar.
