Chris Pirillo's Live Internet Broadcast

Web streaming, technologically speaking, isn't the greatest challenge. People have been using it for years (to various degrees of success). The hurdle, my friends, is connecting the "media" element with the human one. Justin.tv has it figured out - but "what comes next" is where my interest lies.

Two-way audio and video conversations, recordings including backchannel chatter, community-induced flow and direction, etc. It's all attainable. The question is: will it ever get any easier?

I cannot rely on a single tool (or vendor) to provide me with the experiences I seek. I rely on widely-accepted platforms (Skype, IRC); I rely on where my non-contiguous community is attentive (Twitter); I rely on powerful media delivery and connectivity tools (Ustream.tv, LiveOffice). Color me pessimistic, but I don't believe any one company could ever deliver those various needs to me. That would be next to impossible - though if anybody could pull it off, it'd probably be Google.