Video bloggers claim spotlight
No longer satisfied with transcribing through just words or photographs in their online diaries, thousands of Web loggers, or bloggers, have turned to video blogging. In place of text, or sometimes in addition to it, "vloggers" use film clips. The clips last a few seconds to a few minutes and are archived one after another in chronological order, the most recent first.
They represent the latest means in catching fragments of life, made possible now that more and more people have access to high-speed Internet service and the necessary equipment, basically a camcorder, a computer and cheap, sometimes even free, software and storage services.
In less than two years, the number of video blogs, also known as vlogs and video podcasts, has exploded from a handful to more than 7,000, according to video blogging directory Mefeedia. "It's Jerry Time!" -- which consists by a single, fortysomething man's rants on life -- was even nominated for a special Emmy award this year, although it lost to an AOL production. And next month, hundreds of vloggers from around the world plan to converge in San Francisco for a conference dubbed Vloggercon.
Perhaps the poster child of the vlog is Rocketboom, produced by cheery host Amanda Congdon and Andrew Baron. The three-minute show is more like television than a diary entry. The quirky news report, which airs Monday through Friday at 9 a.m., even has field correspondents. Some 350,000 people tune in daily and it's available for download on TiVo and Akimbo television set-top boxes. (Read More)
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posted by JOlmsted @ 9:43 AM
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I've been trying to figure out what to write about here. I figured out that my issue is that I don't like typing as a primary way of communication. With the invention of vlogging, this changes. I can get someone else to speak what I want to let people know about, get it on film (or some other digital medium), and post it online.
In the podcast, there is a segment where they are recording bits of their everyday life. This made me realize how easily I can record everyday things and put them together, with the final product being interesting. This medium doesn't really express what I am talking about...but the point should get across.
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