Video blogs — also known by their shorter, clunkier name, vlogs — are blogs that primarily feature video shorts instead of text. Like another web trend, podcasts, where people can subscribe to largely home-brewed audio programs, people can sign up to receive regular video downloads. Though it has not been promoted, the new Apple iTunes podcasting feature supports vlog subscriptions as well.
Blogging + Video = Vlogging (Wired)
Vlogs, the video-infused offspring of blogs, allow anyone to star in their own television show, from news satire to silly sitcom situations, from political commentary to outright zaniness. There are hundreds of vlogs out there, and more launch every day. Here are some of our favorites.
The Vlog World’s Greatest Hits (Wired)
On Aug. 1, when Current TV launches on several satellite and cable TV systems — reaching, at first, about 19 million households — Gore believes young people will finally get that opportunity. But while Current will be televised, it’s not at all clear that the revolution Gore has promised will make it to the screen. You can’t argue with Gore’s planned innovations — interactivity, openness, a willingness to tell stories that buck the mainstream. What remains to be seen is whether his network can realize the goals without compromise.
Today we’re pleased to announce that we’re (finally) launching a new Google Video feature: video playback of all that great content you folks uploaded to us. Given that we started accepting uploads back inApril, this development is certainly long overdue; we’d like to apologize for the delay and thank you for your newsgroup posts, your emails, your blog posts… oh, yes, and your patience.
Now Showing: Your Video (Google Video Advisor)
The video blog, or “vlog”, is the fashionable new way for amateur performers to find an internet audience, whether by chronicling their domestic minutiae or wittily parodying mainstream news bulletins. With audiences typically in the dozens or hundreds, the vlogs aren’t yet threatening ratings at the BBC. They are, however, creating a new generation of online stars – from schoolgirls as young as 11 to a bubbly New York actress with a cult international following.
The next big thing: vlogging (The Times of London)
Advances in digital camera technology, 3G phones and the spread of broadband have spawned a wave of websites devoted to video diaries, amateur films and family events posted for the world to view. They are known as video blogs or vlogs, an advance on the craze for blogs: the 6 million web logs devoted to daily text diaries or political viewpoints currently clogging up the net.
Is this the way to Vlogging stardom? (The Times of London)
Call it Blogging 3.0. The Internet’s now-ubiquitous text-based Web logs and its audiocentric “podcasts” are being upstaged by newfangled video blogs consisting primarily of moving imagery. From Duluth and Minneapolis to Mikkelson’s downtown St. Paul digs, a new breed of bloggers is festooning sites with pithy, click-to-view clips. The local vloggers aren’t alone. Video bloggers across the country are proliferating to the point where big names in the tech and media realms have begun to take notice.
Can’t get your film funded? Vlog it! (St. Paul Pioneer Press)
“Rocketboom” is a Monday-through-Friday video Web log, or vlog, staged as a mini-newscast. Modeled on television yet summoned from cyberspace, each bite-sized dispatch shines a light on what the future seems to be: Whatever you feel like putting out there, accessible to anyone at any time, and (since there will no longer need to be fixed roles in this process) whatever everyone else feels like putting out there for you.
‘Rocketboom’ May Be Future of TV News (Washington Post/AP)
Vlogging is harder and more demanding of expertise than podcasting, and both are harder than text blogging. he eye of the video camera is cold and unforgiving, and the audience, even if pre-numbed by Neighbours and Home and Away, is accustomed to technical excellence. But the technology is fascinating and a further example of how the web is giving individuals a chance to rise, however momentarily, above the grey mass of global humanity.
Old blog, new trick (Sydney Morning Herald)
Two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who helped ignite the dot-com boom in the late ’90s have launched a startup that aims to let independent film makers, public television broadcasters and anyone else distribute video over the Internet. Open Media Network is meant to help broaden the audience for any amateur or professional producer of video or audio clips.
Netscape veterans launch video startup (Associated Press)