A trade show seemed dangerously close to breaking out here over the weekend, as vendors lined up to tout the latest podcasting wares to the milling masses. But nifty products and gizmos were ultimately a sideline at the Portable Media Expo and Podcasting Conference, where attendees wrestled with a far more fundamental point: whether this podcasting thing is — or even should be — a business.
People like you are creating, uploading, subscribing to, and sharing a vast and varied catalogue of video content online, and getting well-known for it, all with unprecedented ease. Vlog Nation, it seems, has arrived. And what’s more, it has officially hit San Antonio. With the recent opening of Node 101, a space for free vlog instruction and production located in the downtown Blue Star Arts complex, Michael Verdi — creator of Freevlog.org and one of vlog culture’s high-profile founding parents — scored the first drops in the bucket toward River City vlog awareness.
Picture this (San Antonio Current)