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08/02/2004 Archived Entry: "p2p TV"

Interesting bit on p2p TV. Got me thinking, even though its focus is journalism which doesn't ever get me thinking. When the Web and TVs fully come together - and they will, of course - and when broadband and video become an everyday thing, what about the everyday joe like you and me? Will we be videoing (or vlogging) our thoughts, lunacies, desires, fetishes across the world's TV sets? I hope so. Reminds me a little of Greg's Mr. Mentality TV show - which I don't even think I can explain right now.
The objection I can think of is one I came up with a few years ago. The www Web will vanish, leaving out the everyday web writers as large media corporations unify the spectrum to only their services on a subscription basis. Or maybe not "vanish." But we will be in an AM kind of situation where the meaty stuff ends up on some kind of FM styled protocol.
Still - imagine the possibilities if we can put everyone on TV with a $30 webcam, a web hosting provider, and still not invented super broadband? Videodrome fantasy? No, man. Something far more perverse and amazing. A true McLuhan Global Village where there is no harmony, only voices and ideas clashing. It's everything first year writing fears, which reminds me somewhat of Jenny's post about cultural critique and writing textbooks. Of course critique has been homogenized. Homogenization, the Fordist mentality, is popular in both business (like TV) and education (no Ezra Pound "make it new" here). That critique should fall victim to the process of uniformity is no surprise; after all, uniformity is a treasured member of the clear and coherent gang.
But I digress (again). Media beings! We need p2p TV to finally mix and remix ourselves into informatic high-ways (technical writing to the extreme, dude).