Internet Start-Up to Take a Hybrid Media Approach - New York Times

I often wonder what jobs we are preparing our students for. After all, there are millions of kids learning video production all over the country. They can't all be the next Steven Speilberg! When I worked in "Hollywood" there weren't even enough entry level jobs for all the film school grads.

YouTube, Current, Turn Here and the like work for some, but will they really create enough jobs for the digital storytellers? Especially when so much content is presented without advertising/revenue? Today's NYT mentions a new model - micronetworks. It could just be dry industrials and educational video ported to the web. But I'm hoping that generation digital can make something much more interesting of it.

Internet Start-Up to Take a Hybrid Media Approach - New York Times: "Next New Networks, a New York-based Internet start-up run and backed by former executives of MTV and Nickelodeon, will announce plans today to begin a series of video-oriented Web sites — what the company calls micro-networks — on niche topics like do-it-yourself fashion, comic books, car racing and cartoons."