Shapevine

Shane Deike posted about the Shapevine a while back. I complained on his blog about the high price of some of their content. When I checked back, one of the Shapevine guys left this comment. Hopefully it rings true.

Hey guys, I'm with Shapevine--someone had mentioned that there was some blogging going on about us ... first of all, thanks for visiting the site and appreciate the comments. Just want to let you know that there will be a lot of free content at Shapevine--podcasts, videoblogging, chat, RSS feeds, etc. We're getting closer to launching these and will be announcing it through a newsletter. We'll just be charging for SV Campus courses and seminars, along with the live events with authors. I think the $29 is on the pricey side, as well. We just have to figure our server costs to put on a live show and be able to pay for production. It's not as expensive for us to do the webcasts, where just the author and the host have a camera, so those should be more affordable. We'll see how it goes. In the end, we really want a community to come together and have an open, rich and rewarding dialogue.