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VON: Exploding Television

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BuzzMachine blogger and media critic Jeff Jarvis brought his wit and style to the Fall 2006 VON conference in Boston. Tech news followers likely remember complete lack of service as he recounted in several "Dell Hell" posts Jarvis is doing just fine, and he VON about online video coming along to explode TV. "Trust is the King. It turns out that trying to own content and control distribution is really expensive," he said. "If conversation is king then all of us content creators are partners not competitors." That means the big guys in media are not in control of that conversation anymore; the people are. The big old networks are in catch-up mode, and some of their actions look desperate. Jeff Jarvis' />The networks and the TV stations have been antagonizing each other, by posting video content online. Jarvis illustrated why the Internet is so important now that longtime partners like these would anger the other side.
(For our take on advertising and television, please read bubble. We just don't want to be stupid. 5. Don't let our videos become soulless. Realize that the golden age of TV wasn't that great. We need to encourage the good stuff. . 6. Think live. I want to see live TV on the net and mobile because it gives us the ability to communicate with each other live. Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark Murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.

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