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"People come up to me and say, 'your doing all this internet stuff... but your not making any money', and I say, 'Mum, Dad, I'm trying'." - Ze Frank

Its sadly true.

The interner has given us the excellent vechicle for sharing ideas, art, thoughts, opinions... but we just seem to be hitting ourselves in the croch and blowing up diet coke.

Perhaps this is all we have to share, at least for now, but even so people are watching it. Shouldn't people be making money from it? Arguably no, but there sould at least be some way they could. There was an excellent snippet on Heroes last week when someone said they were going to stick the freaky videos of claire bennet or YouTube and make million, recieveing the nicly timed "youtube is free you idiot". Yeah it is. Why is that? Frankly youtube is a hit, because it got lucky. Just like myspace or other web social networking hits, they're the market leader because thats where everyone is. Enter revver. Rever works out how much, as a percent, of the content watched on the site was yours, and gives you that percent of that months advertising take, with a cut for themselves. This means that if you stick a video up and it goes super crazy popular you make some money. The Googles is trying to show support, but theres just not gaurentee like there is with revver.

So whats the holdup? Why Isn't everyone on revver? Thats a self answering quention. No ones there, because no ones there.

That and it looks like ass.

Give it time though, I suspect Youtube may be a bit of a flash in the pan.