New media

I’ve been pretty amazed at the rate that new audio and video oriented internet sites have been coming online. It’s a concomitant of the arrival of the tipping-point for broadband as the dominant mode of the net in the US. I think you’re going to see a pretty rapid switch from the text dominance of low bandwidth to AV dominance of high-band. Here’s some sites that have come to my attention lately. They will probably become footnotes in the history of the switch.

• kyou radio
• current.tv
• ourmedia
• open media network

The other crucial thing about these media is that, like blogs, they’re predominantly comprised of home-brew content created by non-professionals. Once again we see the circumvention of the traditional control and decision making structure of MSM. The dominant drive of the internet has got to be P2P, person-to-person.

Another thing is that a lot of this seems to be originating out here in hippie-dippy San Francisco. I love this place.

PS: an anthem for new media? (adult language) http://blogumentary.typepad.com/vlog/2005/03/videoblog_week__2.html