Deleting rockosphere.ning.com

I decided to delete the ning.com site for Rockosphere. I think it's easier to organize groups in existing social networks. I'm sure there are people having great success with ning.com - but the Rockosphere.TV audience is more comfortable with sites like MySpace and Facebook. In fact it's very difficult to get some band members to ever leave MySpace - even for Facebook.

One thing I've noticed is that people love YouTube. You can embed video from our podcast via blip.tv just as easily as you can with YouTube. But people are so comfortable with YouTube that they won't use anything else. They may watch the video on blip.tv. But they won't embed it unless it's on YouTube. So I will probably be archiving old episodes to YouTube at some point.

In some cases - like with music videos I produce - the goal is to post everything at the same time - where appropriate. For example, when I just completed the sadbastardgoespop video I put it on their channel on YouTube instead of Rockosphere's. Though you can still see it in our podcast too.

I've also posted some videos to Facebook. The one annoything thing is that Facebook doesn't give stats. So I have no idea how many people have watched those videos. The good thing is that it lets me tag the people who are in the video, providing links directly from their profiles.

I'm not sure what I'll do with writerdirector.ning.com - I created a group in Facebook called Writer / Director as a "companion" - but I think I might just make it a "replacement."