Initially, blogging opened up written journalism to anybody with a computer and an Internet connection. Then podcasting appeared, and every accountant or bartender who harbored dreams of hosting a radio show could do just that, and distribute it to the world. Now it is video’s turn to break away from its old masters, the television stations and Hollywood studios.
Vlogs make blogs so 2005 (Rutland Herald)
Having rendezvoused in St. Louis earlier that morning, Hall and Streeter have driven four and a half hours up Interstate 55 to co-headline Meet the Vloggers, the first major regional summit on the burgeoning art of video blogging. Also known as “vlogging” or “video podcasting,” the discipline is akin to a standard blog, except with an audiovisual content focus, and is to traditional podcasting (i.e., audio-only webcasts that can be downloaded onto iPods and various other multimedia platforms) as moving pictures are to radio.
Sweet and Lo-Fi (Riverfront Times)
Phil Burns doesn’t sweat his geek status. The local entrepreneur, who wrote his first software program at age 12, credits a nerd-like love of technology as the driving force behind his latest business venture, a cutting-edge company that plans to use video blogging, or vlogging, as a unique marketing tool for dot-com corporations… Vlogs are like blogs, with visual shorts replacing text to catalog everything from daily political musings to the ins and outs of vodka-based stew.
Virtual Renegades (Salt Lake City Weekly)
When Chuck Olsen left his Web-producer day job at a local TV station in late 2004, he aimed to popularize the video-blogging medium that had consumed him for years…But above all, Olsen aspires to make vlogging pay for itself. He’s in search of the proverbial “business model” that will make his indie-style medium a financially thriving concern. “I want to devote all my time to this,” he says, “going out and getting interviews and telling stories.”
Chuck Olsen: video blogmeister (Pioneer Press)