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Are Video Blogs Ready For Prime Time?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the be-your-own-nina-pineda dept.

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.

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  1. Blog entry for today by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I just ate a bagle. It was pretty good.

  2. Nerds on TV by phrantic · · Score: 4, Funny

    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....

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  3. Cameras by trialsboy · · Score: 3, Funny

    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!

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  4. Re:One more step toward the irrelevence of literac by Apotsy · · Score: 3, Funny
    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.

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