Welcome to the future of Home TV Broadcasting, my rant on Web 2.0 and a call to EXPRESS yourself!
Everyone keeps talking about WEB 2.0 and I am writing this to call out that Web 2.0 is about being able to express yourself freely without getting bogged down or constrained by old ways of thinking or organizations with agendas blocking change. I will never forget when in 1976 sitting at friend’s house in Troy, NY listening to a phonograph and George Carlen’s recording about "7 words you cannot say on TV". And now here I am in my den writing a BLOG where I can say whatever I want to AND run my own TV station at the same time. Wow what a change from the 70’s. Now let me get back on track. This TV station is running on Microsoft Windows Media Server. And my point about Web 2.0 is that the real revolution that is going on is not only about the technology and WEB BASED APPLICATIONS that have been around for years, as it is more about using the web and producing content that can be published on the WEB. See WEB 1.0 was about education and empowerment, but Web 2.0 is about creating, distributing and collaborating.
With Web 2.0 we can take back control from all that we learned from Web 1.0 and start creating and hosting services, content and applications ourselves on our home PC’s and/or business computers (The grass roots video production phenomenon has yet to hit business at critical mass, but it will soon)
THIS PHENOMENON IS TRULY PROMETHEAN! Meaning users are now truly empowered to create, publish and review/judge content without “chains” and constraints.
So from that perspective the WWW is just a conduit for collaboration and the real power of the medium starts at home and within the individual, ala PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT. And all of this can be done on your home PC.
Thank you Bill Gates and Jeff Raikes for facilitating this RENAISSANCE!
With a cheap clone PC and Microsoft software I can create films, music, images, content, etc… So the magic is HERE in my PC, my personal blank score on which I can compose and publish whatever I want for all the world to see. This is creativity and freedom at its best.
THAT IS WHAT WEB 2.0 is really about. It’s about PEOPLE CREATING CONTENT TO MOLD THE WORLD AND EXPRESS THEMSELVES WITH THE TOOLS THEY ALREADY HAVE IN THEIR GRASPS – THEIR HOME PC!
That is why I am amp’d about my new TV Station as it is all hosted here in my home on Microsoft Technology. I can create, edit, refine and publish content right here. So that to me is the magic, not some slick content www site that is just going to suck us into someone else’s environment where we will not have control over our content and where we have to watch someone else’s advertising that we cannot control (vs. having to change the channel all the time).
People (PC owners) and the content they create and publish is the next great thing on the Internet. And finally leveraging the tools they have in hand today is what will make that so.
Look at what you have on your computer today (Windows Vista/XP) and possibly Home Server and think to yourself "Wow did not know I could do that".
Choose to pick up your tools (the metaphorical fire of Prometheus) and affect change but know there are risks and rewards or cause and effect! Choose with reason!
So that is that… Stay tuned in for the content. I will be creating it using a new suite of products from Microsoft called Expression.
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