For those of you keeping score - a few more sharing services arrived (or at-least i noticed them).

Vimeo has been poking around with it's interesting simple upload and sharing site. Last night i went to Central Park to see Camper Van Beethoven and Modest Mouse with Max and his friend. We sat on the lawn and enjoyed the show - this morning - there's video from inside the Summer Stage arena. Pretty cool. Still not sure how it sorts or scales, but maybe it doesn't matter. Maybe tags and traffic are enough to let the good stuff float to the top.

Unmediated pointed me to YouTube What is "YouTube?" Here's what the site says: "YouTube is a way to get your videos to the people who matter to you. With YouTube you can: Show off your favorite videos to the world. Blog the videos you take with your digital camera or cell phone Securely and privately show videos to your friends and family around the world ... and much, much more!"

finally - Susan Mernit's blog pointed me to kaneva.com which bills itself as "the worlds first digital media marketplace."

What's interesting is that Vimeo and YouTube are simple - but gettable. Kaneva is a viewing/publishing/games platform that doesn't clearly offer a digestible way in.

That's the state off affairs in video sharing/publishing on the web right now. Too Simple - Too Complex. Part of what this all points up is that people don't go to the web to look at 'clips' or 'video' any more than i search good for 'text' or 'articles'. I need something. When i get it - I'm happy.

That's why the Camper Van Beethoven clip is the only thing i'll remember from all the stuff i looked at this morning. I sent it to Max. He'll send it to his friend. It's media that connects to something real (for me anyway). Now all we need to do is to figure out how to sale both the production side and the filter/search side and we might have the glimmer of a new media model.