Participatory Culture

It's not so much the technology as what it enables. The Participatory Culture Foundation puts it all into perspective. Our world is chock full of large media conglomorates that try to shove crap summer films down our throats in order to make their stocks go up 1/16 of a point. It messed a lot of us up and continues to (just watch Nickelodeon for half an hour and note how many ads there are for nutritious food. Now note how many there are for fruit flavored snacks of some sort).

The Internet Video revolution isn't so much about delivering TV shows to your PC, but rather about letting YOU deliver TV shows (or music, or books, or pr0n, or what have you) to OTHER's PCs. It's not really about conglomerates any more. It's about homebrew entertainment and informative shows that have a following of just a few people to hundreds of thousands (possibly more). It's really about a chance to participate in creating content for others to consume. Anyway, enough of me waxing poetic about the philosophical side of things...

See for Yourself (note there's only a MAC beta right now, but a Windows beta is on the way...if you just can't wait check out the Open Media Network).