Are Video Blogs Ready For Prime Time?

Markmarkmark writes "Is video blogging ready for prime-time? Can Internet talking 'blog-heads' beat the talking heads on Fox? Is the next Andy Rooney-type commentator going to be a /.er? With new technology and a little creativity, this MSNBC article today thinks so. 'The big problems have been setting up lights and a camera in my study properly, so that I don't look dead, or hung over.'" The article is about the software / hardware it takes to set up a microstudio; the author does not really explore much about the video-blogging implications -- but you can.

Comments

It's been done

[acb]

Don't camgirls with LiveJournals already do something like this?

Blog entry for today

[Anonymous Coward]

I just ate a bagle. It was pretty good.

Re:A Day in the Life of a Geek?

[Kombat]

:s/shouldn't/should

Nerds on TV

[phrantic]

The big problems have been setting up lights and a camera in my study properly, so that I don't look dead, or hung over. But those are hardware problems, not software. The software worked perfectly right out of the box.

His initial concern is for his appearance, doesn't sound like "news for nerds" to me....

Re:I honestly hope it will NEVER be prime time

[Brento]

I think text blogs (not even pictures) are much better - it depends on your ability to describe things well, and it puts a comfortable anonymity for you *and* your reader.

Yeah, but what if you were reading your ex-girlfriend's blog? Don't you want to see the look in her eyes when she talks about how much she misses you and ...

Oh, wait, this is /. Nobody misses us.

Great...

[BitwizeGHC]

Now 2 the Ranting Gryphon can come to us in high-def, color-corrected video. Looking forward to all that bandwidth going right down the crapper.

How about a video version of /.

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd definately want to see the faces of the "F1r57 p057!!!!111 l337 dUUdz!!11" people.

Cameras

[trialsboy]

I feel that any kind of camera, digital camera or video camera attached to my computer i anyway is bound to end up in my naked ass being posted around the world just after I've had a shower or something!

the WatchMeDance.com guy runs a Video Blog!

[Anonymous Coward]

-thedanceman- @ http://www.WatchMeDance.com runs a video blog site of him dancing around. It's funny stuff.

Video blogs?

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, I know I like these fine ladies just plenty.

Re:One more step toward the irrelevence of literac

[Apotsy]

GUI interfaces (which seem easier at first but are a pain to use to get anything serious done)

Yeah, all serious graphic artists use the command line version of Photoshop.

Pictures yes, now how about sound?

[Ashtead]

One feature of the usual blogs, as websites in general, is that we have text and words there. However, if this became a video feed, we would have moving pictures, and most likely audio.

Herein lies the rub. Imagine sitting at work during a break or some other time, and looking at somebodys full-media blog: "Hello my name is Ashtead and I have been eating peanutbutter and jelly sandwiches for breakfast ... "

Sounding loud and clear over the cubicle farm.

Besides, I tend to laugh when finding some funny web-page, and some of my colleagues already want to know why I am laughing for no apparent reason (to them anyways). Are they now having to wonder who all these other people in here are?

There will be no more looking at and listening to these things at work anymore!

Which could possibly be a good thing, considering ...