>>>Watching video content on the Web is, IMO and probably, different from any other format. It's not TV - you don't have to hit the right time, it will wait for you.
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>>Not quite. You can build the same sort of community much more easily online.
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>Nope, it's a different kind of community. It's not a bunch of people commenting what was "on TV" last night, with that TV being somewhere out there with unreachable and unreal people whom nobody ever met in real life. In this kind of community, you can actually communicate with the authors (Pratchett's books are a collaboration with his readers for more than a decade now, for example), and your comments can reach far beyond the water cooler.


Indeed. Today you can communicate with Presidential candidates on their blogs and MySpace pages.

It's not much different than every candidate having their own "channel" on TV, except the interactive part remember.



>>If you watch a YouTube video, you see that people comment on them on the same page you watch on it.
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>>The community is alive right there, not at the water cooler the next day.
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>See? It IS different.

Oh, of course its different.

My point was its different only in the enhancements and extensions it makes.

It doesn't loose anything from the previous community was my point.