Friday, June 09, 2006

Videoblogs!

What happens when one introduces the webcam to a blogger? Besides accumulating internet stalkers, one becomes a videoblogger. Videoblogs (or Vlogs, as the incredibly hip call them) continue where the photoblog left off, only this time, there is audio and them pictures are movin’!)

Videoblogs are the 5 pm news of blogs. Bloggers (or, more attractive people hired to pretend to be the blogger) can do a variety of things with video, the least of which is provide news recapping. This genre of blogging is less structured than any other – if one looks up videoblogs, the results include news, video game reviews, trips and student art-films.

One of the more popular videoblogs online isRocketboom, which covers daily news in three minutes, including “field reports” and a traditional anchor. This one is more traditional, in that it mirrors a traditional newscast (or, one may say, The Daily Show…

Videoblogs are getting popular for the same reasons blogs are: readers can get information and be voyeuristic as well. Even though creating a videoblog is more complicated than writing a traditional blog, the audience has just as easy access. Most videoblogs rely on Quicktime or other streaming videotechnology, so that the viewer can begin watching the blog before loading is complete. Like traditional blogs, videoblogs can also be distributed via RSS or other forms of syndication.

If one is interested in making videoblogs, there are many resources to help one out – and many videobloggers link to fellow bloggers and resources, as Rocketboom does. If you still don’t quite get the videoblog, check out this article from Wired.

Here are some resources for videoblogging, if you are so inclined to try. And if you do try, you better be really funny or attractive, or you may find yourself without an audience.Freevlog:”100% More Stuff to Help you Kick-Ass at Videoblogging”
Vidblogs: Includes a forum, directory and free hosting.

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