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Videoblog Revolution
mr_don't writes "Not too long ago Slashdot featured a post about photoblogs. It claimed that photoblogging is the next big thing, but really it has been around a while (notice how lots of folks posted a link to their photoblogs!). I think the next big thing will be VideoBlogging. Many have seen Peter Jackson's cool King Kong Video Blog, but you don't need whole a camera crew to blog using video. My made-on-linux video blog."
Only do this if you are a hot chick
this is the sound of tumbleweed
The next Big Thing will be when you all get a life and stop pretending that your opinion is important enough to take up space on the internet. Video-bloging is just another "thing" of no importantance. It all makes me sick, I should write an entry in my blog about it.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
To advertise your blog on slashdot?
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Blogging comfortably took about 56kbps. Photoblogging required broadband of at least 512kbps. Videoblogging? Looks like I better fork over even more cash to the ISP.
I won't be doing high-def videoblogging unless I get my own ATSC transmitter tower!
...is going to be the bill from whoever hosts your web server!
/.ing a page with video files is never a good idea!
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Bandwidth.... and nobody cares.
Of course, the second issue kind of takes care of the first. Based on the quality of most letter-blogs out there, I suspect that the vast majority of videoblogs could be safely co-hosted from a single Commodore 64 and a 300-baud modem.
When you have nothing left to burn you must set yourself on fire
I read you on the usenet back in Ninety Two Lying awake intent at typing in on you. If I was young it didn't stop you coming through. Oh-a oh
They took the credit for your second symphony. Rewritten by machine and new technology, and now I understand the problems you can see.
Oh-a oh
I met your children
Oh-a oh
What did you tell them?
Video killed the Weblog star.
Video killed the Weblog star.
Pictures came and broke your heart.
Oh-a-a-a oh
And now we meet in an abandoned chatroom. We see the text words and it seems so long ago. And you remember the Smilies that came through :).
Oh-a oh
You were the first one.
Oh-a oh
You were the last one.
Video killed the Weblog star.
Video killed the Weblog star.
In my mind and in my car,
we can't rewind we've gone to far
Oh-a-aho oh,
Oh-a-aho oh
Video killed the Weblog star.
Video killed the Weblog star.
Of course, the second issue kind of takes care of the first. Based on the quality of most letter-blogs out there, I suspect that the vast majority of videoblogs could be safely co-hosted from a single Commodore 64 and a 300-baud modem.
That's just a cruel way to treat a Commodore 64 with a 300 baud modem. This equipment had nothing to do with the assclown videoblog crowd.
Laws are for people with no friends.
Text blogging is bad enough, where lots of people with nothing worthwhile to say about write about their boring life.
Photo blogging is worse, because those same boring people take picture of ugly and uninteresting places and people. To make things worse, most people don't get out enough to provide a reasonable variety in subject and have a total lack of photography skill resulting isn awful pictures.
Now comes video blogging, where those same people unable to get a life run around with a video camera to capture uninteresting ugly people in boring places making ineptly a fool out of themselves.
For all three categories, if any of those bloggers had any skill at writing, taking pictures or filming, they would be hired to do it for a living and not waste their time updating blogs.
The only blogs of interest contain good-looking naked women best presented by professionals to make it look like snapshots. But this is a different well-established industry.
I really really really want the word "blog" to die very soon. All that it has done is let people express their opinion, and, by capturing 0.000000002% to 0.0000004% of the world's attention (that is 15 to 3000 people), they think they're some sort of vanguard. No, I'm not interested in your "regional bands" or the fact that your condo is falling apart. I could care less what the "blogosphere" thinks. All this is doing is increasing the signal:noise ratio.
/. Friends should check out: My Amigos which is just a list of all the recent journal entries on any of your /. Friends.
That being said, I do not have, nor ever want, a blog. The closest I can come to accepting a blog is the occasional Penny Arcade post, but that's not really similar to a blog at all.
I also break out in hives whenever anyone uses the word "blogosphere" -- as if all the world's idiocy could be contained in an area of (4/3 pi r^3).
Now, for those of you who just love blogs, and have a fair number of
Sigh.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
Starts with "Po" and earns in "rn". Thats right, Popcorn!
printf("Goodbye cruel world!\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b");