The final (and for my money the best) panel at Web 2.0 Expo was the Robert Scoble, Chris Pirillo, Thomas Hawk, Jeremiah Owyang “who can live blog / videoblog / twitter / upload these photos to ZooomerFlickr faster-athon” in the closing moments of Wednesday afternoon.
Sure all that live video and twittering can seem silly if you are still stuck on thinking about content. A bunch of technology geeks wearing cams on their hats can seem pretty silly until you realize that thousands of people are watching. And then you realize that someday soon someone is going to use that technology to document an atrocity or a natural disaster and do it quicker and better than CNNBCFOX.
At least that’s how I see it.
More thoughts from Jeremiah himself.
BlogTalkRadio’s Alan Levy (disclosure, I’m working with BTR) had this insight:
The most ironic thing to me was seeing Robert Scoble with a camera connected to his head. The reason I used the word ironic, is because when I launched Blogtalkradio early last fall, I went to the Podexpo in Ontario Ca. Everyone was focused on digital mixed podcasts, and pristine audio quality. Blogtalkradio is a live platform using a phone or voip connection to host these conversations. Podshow, Podango, Podtech, and tons of others in the space considered live conversations to be inconsistent with the key elements of podcasting. I disagreed with this thesis then and I guess, that given Scoble’s interest in interviewing people using a camera affixed to his head, he agrees that a few umms and ahh’s can’t hurt anyone.
In short, you don’t have to be pristine to be compelling.
