{"id":1323,"date":"2007-05-22T16:46:39","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T20:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/05\/22\/is-justintv-the-future-of-tv\/"},"modified":"2007-05-22T16:46:39","modified_gmt":"2007-05-22T20:46:39","slug":"is-justintv-the-future-of-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/05\/22\/is-justintv-the-future-of-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Justin.tv the future of TV?"},"content":{"rendered":"
I know it’s kind of late, but this is a story I wrote for the Globe and Mail about Justin.tv (original is here<\/a>).<\/i><\/p>\n

It’s being called "lifecasting."<\/p>\n

Justin Kan, who coined the term, is the 23-year-old co-founder of a San Francisco-based company and the "star" of an Internet video experiment called Justin.tv<\/a>. He wears a small camera mounted on a baseball cap, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and the video is streamed to his website at Justin.tv.<\/p>\n

justin.jpgEating, working, talking on the phone, shopping, at parties with his friends and co-founders – the camera is always on. When Kan is asleep, the camera is mounted on a tripod pointed at his bed. He even wears it when he’s going to the bathroom (although he tilts it up toward the ceiling).<\/p>\n

Kan isn’t wearing the camera because he thinks his life is all that fascinating; in fact, he freely admits that what he does most of the time isn’t interesting at all. And one of the few times that things did get interesting – when Kan went back to a woman’s apartment and the two wound up in the bedroom – the camera went dark, while a porn-movie soundtrack superimposed by the team back at justin.tv headquarters.<\/p>\n

Kan and his partners didn’t fit him with a hat-cam because they think he deserves to be a celebrity. They’re doing it because they want to show how easy wearing a camera around all day can be. Kan says they want to create<\/a> an army of lifecasters – actors, musicians, even "citizen journalists" who could follow political candidates around.<\/p>\n

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I know it’s kind of late, but this is a story I wrote for the Globe and Mail about Justin.tv (original is here). It’s being called "lifecasting." Justin Kan, who coined the term, is the 23-year-old co-founder of a San Francisco-based company and the "star" of an Internet video experiment called Justin.tv. He wears a … <\/p>\n

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