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Videoblog Revolution

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the this-revolution-won't-be-televised dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Crash by Tony+Hoyle · · Score: 3, Informative

    You have a configuration problem. Works fine here on firefox 1.0/win32.

  2. more resources for videobloggers by geek_jihadi · · Score: 2, Informative

    THE site for videoblogging as well as the yahoo mailing list where we discuss technical and creative issues. Feel free to jump in!

    Jay Dedman is to be congratulated for his evangelizing, and his hard work!

    And of course there is me, the geek jihadi.

  3. Problems with video blogs... by Spoing · · Score: 2, Informative
    Video blogs suffer from a few practical drawbacks;

    1. Bandwidth.
    2. Too much like TV: harder to do anything but watch.
    3. Increased production time. The Podcasters are finding that they are spending quite a bit of time figuring out what equipment to buy, how to use it, and what software to use. A 1 hour audio blog can take 3 hours to produce depending on how much polish is needed. Add video and I can see that tagging on another hour -- minimum -- unless you don't have much to show or don't care much about how it looks.
    4. Who would want to look at ~your~ face? :)

    That said, I think that video blogs will become popular...though it may be a couple years before these issues aren't as big of a problem to deal with.

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