Ubiquitous Broadband Changes Everything

Edward B. Driscoll Jr. writes in TCS Daily about the effects of video blogging, place shifting (e.g. SlingBox) and time shifting (TiVo et.al.). It’s good stuff.

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Coming Soon: The One-Man TV Network

But the next phase for video on the Web is videoblogging — or vblogging for short. It might be surprising to some, but one of the early entrants in this arena was the National Rifle Association. Feeling hamstrung by campaign finance reform laws passed in 2003, the NRA decided that since media organizations were free to speak on any issue they want anytime during an election cycle, that they’d become one themselves. One result of that decision was NRANews.com, which includes a daily three-hour video broadcast on the Website.