The other evening I was preparing for a business trip. As I usually do I head over to Itunes and see if anything catches my attention that I want to watch or listen to while on the plane. I went into the video section and saw a couple I thought I may enjoy. The first was by the gang over at nextNYers who produces a series of short videos all about the up and coming startups out of the New York area. I subscribed to this one and moved on to find some more. The next one I came across was Media Conversations. It had a good review, so I threw it on the iPhone as well.
So I was on the plane and had finished a movie and decided to check out the video podcasts I had downloaded. I watched the nextNYers one first. They featured Blip.tv. It was really good. The production quality was great and I really enjoyed watching and learning about some cool companies. It was obviously geared towards a younger web 2.0 crowd and it hit its mark. Take a look for yourself. You do not need to watch the entire clip, its about 4 minutes, but you will get the idea.
After I checked out the nextNYers, i scrolled over to watch the Media Conversations. From the title, “User Generated Content”, I thought I was in for a little more of the same as the nextNYers. I was wrong. While I am sure that the content was good, I couldn’t get past the visual of it all. Take a look and see what I mean.
Honestly, I kind of laughed out loud on the plane. My seat neighbor, gave me quite the look. I love the gentleman asking the questions, his thick glasses, buttoned up shirt, and english accent. Right away, he jumps into acronyms. UGC … User Generated Content. Its classic. Give it a minute and look at the expression on his face when his one guest talks about “SPLOGS”, spam blogs.
So let this be a lesson to all of you. Know when to get out ….. or you may be starting to use some odd acronyms as well.
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