Jeff Pulver is taking this whole video-over-the-net thing very seriously and has devoted a good chunk of his time (or his team’s time) to cataloging and listing what’s out there on the net. Today he takes a crack at TV shows that only appear on the Internet — in other words, web original video programming.
He’s got a good round-up and he’s clearly aiming to create some kind of directory or guide to Internet video. But in this category of programming, i.e. video “shows” that appears only on the web, the entries are endless and coming up with any kind of comprehensive list or guide is a daunting challenge.
A while back I took a look at blip.tv, which is a platform that aims to help people create their own “TV shows” on the web. blip.tv stresses that its focus is different from YouTube or other one-off video sites because it’s helping to create ongoing series of video programming.
I raise blip.tv now because there are dozens of web-only TV shows on that site that don’t appear in Pulver’s list. My guess is that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of sites featuring video content that might fall into the category of “TV shows,” although, to be sure, the quality of most of these “shows” probably leaves a lot to be desired.
Cynthia Brumfield at 8:23 AM|Comments(1)
Tracking original TV programming was one of our "summer projects." A day ago the list I was going to publish had 162 entries...but last night in the final edits I decided to narrowcast the list and pick out sites which appeared to be more current than the others. I forgot to mention in my blog post that for the most part the content listed would be "G" with a few of the more edgy sites "PG-13." I intentionally left off the R, NC-17 and XXX sites that we also discovered. Maybe for another time...
Posted by: Jeff Pulver at August 29, 2006 8:56 AM
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