{"id":5829,"date":"2007-03-13T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=501"},"modified":"2007-03-13T14:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T09:20:00","slug":"web-20-comes-to-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/web-20-comes-to-television\/","title":{"rendered":"Web 2.0 comes to television"},"content":{"rendered":"
Reader Vikram Chandrashekar points me to a couple of news pieces (1<\/a>, 2<\/a>) about the launch in the UK of Current TV, the television channel started by Al Gore. We are informed:<\/p>\n The user-generated programming will feature three to eight-minute short documentaries, known as pods, and half-hourly “news” bulletins describing the UK’s most popular Google search terms.<\/p>\n A third of the films will be made by members of the public and the rest voted onto the channel by viewers. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n I’m rather sceptical about “user-generated programming.” As I mentioned here<\/a>, crowds are great at collating content (Wikipedia) and filtering content (Digg etc), but not so much at creating content. Still, the content creation of crowds can work if you have a real-time filtering mechanism that crowds themselves operate, and if you can cater to the long tail<\/a>. YouTube can do both of those; Current TV can do neither. For that reason, I think Gore’s venture is likely to fail. <\/p>\n Of course, there’s still the presidency. (1<\/a>, 2<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reader Vikram Chandrashekar points me to a couple of news pieces (1<\/a>, 2<\/a>) about the launch in the UK of Current TV, the television channel started by Al Gore. We are informed:<\/p>\n The user-generated programming will feature three to eight-minute short documentaries, known as pods, and half-hourly “news” bulletins describing the UK’s most popular Google search terms.<\/p>\n A third of the films will be made by members of the public and the rest voted onto the channel by viewers. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n I’m rather sceptical about “user-generated programming.” As I mentioned here<\/a>, crowds are great at collating content (Wikipedia) and filtering content (Digg etc), but not so much at creating content. Still, the content creation of crowds can work if you have a real-time filtering mechanism that crowds themselves operate, and if you can cater to the long tail<\/a>. YouTube can do both of those; Current TV can do neither. For that reason, I think Gore’s venture is likely to fail. <\/p>\n Of course, there’s still the presidency. (1<\/a>, 2<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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