This American Life + Vox
Friday, May 25th, 2007This seems like an interesting way to blur the line between web and TV content, at least on the face of it. Lots of people are out there creating this kind of content for their own blogs, and I’m sure the audiences for Vox and This American Life overlap heavily (i.e. LIBERALS with nothing better to do than BLOG).
While it makes sense from a marketing perspective, I suspect there isn’t much of a creative or artistic use for these videos. I doubt anyone’s video will be featured on This American Life, in large part because the show isn’t about people telling their stories, it’s about Ira Glass telling other people’s stories. User-submitted content isn’t going to fit that format.
All that is tangentially related to the site about which I intended to blog but don’t really have much to say (except “check it out”): 6 milliards d’Autres. I love the use of high-res video for a project of this nature. Be sure to click the “high bandwidth” version to see it, though. Story Corps should do something like this.
OK, that’s just about enough seriousness for 5:30 on a Friday afternoon. Time to report to the garden for the long holiday weekend.
