Comments on: In Defense of QubeTV http://robertbluey.com/blog/2007/05/04/in-defense-of-qubetv/ Conservative blogger and journalist with a passion for politics, sports and family Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:34:20 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Bluey Blog | Robert B. Bluey » Teaching Taxpayers How to Blog http://robertbluey.com/blog/2007/05/04/in-defense-of-qubetv/comment-page-1/#comment-369 Bluey Blog | Robert B. Bluey » Teaching Taxpayers How to Blog Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:26:18 +0000 http://robertbluey.com/blog/2007/05/04/in-defense-of-qubetv/#comment-369 [...] with my good friend Andy Roth of the Club for Growth and Charlie Gerow of QubeTV, the YouTube-link video site for conservatives. I’ll be talking about why the blogosphere matters and how state and local can’t start [...] [...] with my good friend Andy Roth of the Club for Growth and Charlie Gerow of QubeTV, the YouTube-link video site for conservatives. I’ll be talking about why the blogosphere matters and how state and local can’t start [...]

]]> By: Jonathan Rick http://robertbluey.com/blog/2007/05/04/in-defense-of-qubetv/comment-page-1/#comment-368 Jonathan Rick Sun, 06 May 2007 16:39:21 +0000 http://robertbluey.com/blog/2007/05/04/in-defense-of-qubetv/#comment-368 While Heritage and Edwards's campaign have the resources to post to 15 and 24 sites, respectively, individual people, who vlog and connect not as a job but as a hobby, simply don't have that kind of time. Another practical consideration: say you make a typo. You then need to correct it on every site you've uploaded to. Finally, I prefer the alternative David proposes: rather than create a competitor to YouTube, start a blog dedicated to the given niche. The resources necessary are far smaller, the task is far easier, and the project is far easier to promote. BTW, a suggestion for you, Rob: I think the comments box should be bigger, so that people can see more of what they're typing as they type it. While Heritage and Edwards’s campaign have the resources to post to 15 and 24 sites, respectively, individual people, who vlog and connect not as a job but as a hobby, simply don’t have that kind of time.

Another practical consideration: say you make a typo. You then need to correct it on every site you’ve uploaded to.

Finally, I prefer the alternative David proposes: rather than create a competitor to YouTube, start a blog dedicated to the given niche. The resources necessary are far smaller, the task is far easier, and the project is far easier to promote.

BTW, a suggestion for you, Rob: I think the comments box should be bigger, so that people can see more of what they’re typing as they type it.

]]> By: Matt N. http://robertbluey.com/blog/2007/05/04/in-defense-of-qubetv/comment-page-1/#comment-367 Matt N. Sun, 06 May 2007 13:35:41 +0000 http://robertbluey.com/blog/2007/05/04/in-defense-of-qubetv/#comment-367 Yes, I also didn't see any way to embed video from QubeTV. And from their disclaimer, they don't seem to have the expensive, high-octane hosting system which a video hosting service requires. With the type of open source software out there, anyone and their brother could create and host their own version of youtube. (See http://www.flashinsider.com/2006/07/26/how-to-create-your-own-youtube-site/) But the trick is to have millions of dollars of start up capital and actually make money in the process- Google and YouTube are far from actually make a profit, and they have the best servers in the world and almost unlimited resources at their disposal. QubeTV is a good idea if it hosts the type of videos about radical Islam that youtube takes down. But between bandwidth and hosting costs, copyright issues, a lack of advertisements, and no embedding, It appears QubeTV needs to get a better business model asap- Unless they just have so many donors that they simply don't care. And nothing is wrong with hosting a conservative wiki. However, because of the number of actual volunteer man hours a comprehensive wiki involves, I don't see how they could ever come close to the 1.7 million articles that wikipedia hosts. I think it would be more interesting if they became a constantly-updated online companion to ISI's encyclopedia of conservatism. And volunteers could still branch out into the type of articles they write about now, but there wouldn't be any illusion that its somehow everything wikipedia is... just with a conservative slant. Yes, I also didn’t see any way to embed video from QubeTV. And from their disclaimer, they don’t seem to have the expensive, high-octane hosting system which a video hosting service requires. With the type of open source software out there, anyone and their brother could create and host their own version of youtube. (See http://www.flashinsider.com/2006/07/26/how-to-create-your-own-youtube-site/) But the trick is to have millions of dollars of start up capital and actually make money in the process- Google and YouTube are far from actually make a profit, and they have the best servers in the world and almost unlimited resources at their disposal.

QubeTV is a good idea if it hosts the type of videos about radical Islam that youtube takes down. But between bandwidth and hosting costs, copyright issues, a lack of advertisements, and no embedding, It appears QubeTV needs to get a better business model asap- Unless they just have so many donors that they simply don’t care.

And nothing is wrong with hosting a conservative wiki. However, because of the number of actual volunteer man hours a comprehensive wiki involves, I don’t see how they could ever come close to the 1.7 million articles that wikipedia hosts. I think it would be more interesting if they became a constantly-updated online companion to ISI’s encyclopedia of conservatism. And volunteers could still branch out into the type of articles they write about now, but there wouldn’t be any illusion that its somehow everything wikipedia is… just with a conservative slant.

]]> By: Sean Hackbarth http://robertbluey.com/blog/2007/05/04/in-defense-of-qubetv/comment-page-1/#comment-366 Sean Hackbarth Sun, 06 May 2007 03:59:03 +0000 http://robertbluey.com/blog/2007/05/04/in-defense-of-qubetv/#comment-366 From my limited experience at QubeTV I found I couldn't embed any video. I'm more likely to pass on videos on my weblog than wander to the sites finding stuff. So no embedding means I won't be using it. From my limited experience at QubeTV I found I couldn’t embed any video. I’m more likely to pass on videos on my weblog than wander to the sites finding stuff. So no embedding means I won’t be using it.

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