You can now throw out your TV - 2006 in review

Why do we all want to buy a Willi Waller 2006? Why did Time Magazine choose YOU as the person of the year? The answer: Web 2.0.

This year, we saw the rise of sites like www.youtube.com which also coincided with the rebirth of lip-syncing. We all share our pictures using www.flickr.com. Google has become a verb. BitTorrent or iTunes has become the way to get TV shows, allowing you to watch what you want, when you want it. We no longer go to Tower Records (Closed) or any other CD shops to buy music, we go to iTunes. Podcasting (or Netcasting as Leo Laporte started) has become my listening choice in the car (plus, I have two shows on iTunes myself: Outside The Artist's Studio - The podcast that would have saved Van Gogh's ear! and Cuddle Podcast - bedtime stories with daddy). A community has gotten together to form a knowledge based called www.wikipedia.com. Sites like www.digg.com allow you to choose which stories are relevant and should be placed on the front page.

In terms of entertainment, Web 2.0 is changing how we consider the media. I can laugh out loud for a good hour just watching Tetes a Claques, which is funnier than most sitcoms! One of my clients - www.twistimage.com prepared a nice little review of the best viral videos of 2006.

>>http://www.share2006.com/<<

Take the Evolution of Dance as an example. It was viewed 37,545,830 times so far. Obviously, people are watching. Web 2.0's best and worst quality is that it lets anyone have a voice. Leo Laporte quoted someone saying that if you recognize that there is a small percentage of excellence in everything, then more quantity would bring more excellence. Basically, just because anybody with a digital camera can make a movie, some will actually make something worth watching, that otherwise would not have been able to do before Web 2.0.

So, instead of watching uncreative TV, throw it out, download the few series worth watching, and look for those that produce something worth watching!