Ed-E-festo: Video 3.0...The Next Video Movement on the Web

New Media Warlords of the 21st Century Unite!

First, a disclaimer, for those of you waiting for laughs to follow (And for those of you thinking about posting a comment that starts "we've been waiting since your first post... C'mon, be more original than that.), you won't find any. Every movement needs to a) be called a movement and b) have a manifesto. Since nobody else has done so yet and since I have the right mix of ego meets delusion, I figure I may as well take a shot at The Manifesto of Video On The Web...or Ed-E-festo. Hey, you write one, you can name it after yourself.

THE MOVEMENT
Since 2000, maybe even before, video has played a major role on the web. Yeah, you in the back, I know it was on the web before. But it was around 2000 that our friendly telecom monopoly realized that making broadband available to the masses, i.e. reducing the price was a money maker. And let me further define "web video". This is largely content generated by people like you; yes, you in the back digitizing me on your cellie for download on YouTube or the five thousand other video portals that have since sprouted up on the web like mushrooms in what's left of the rain forests after a monsoon.

NEW MEDIA WARLORDS OF THE 21ST CENTURY STAKE YOUR CLAIM
For the first time, thanks to said telecom behemoths, we know them all: LonelyGirl15, Rocketboom (Amanda and the Other One), Where The Hell Is Matt, Eepy Birds, the Blendtec guy, the list goes on. For the first time since the beginning of movies in the last century, we have a new technology and new stars. And you know what's even better? When movies started, your average Matt, Amanda or the Other One couldn't participate. Making movies cost a lot of money, and that was just to buy Fatty Arbuckle out of the Coke bottle sodomy charge. Now the screen belongs to anyone with a mini-DV and a hard drive. At least that's what the telecom and traditional (TV/Move) content producers want you to believe.