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."

Comments

Bandwidth...

[SunPin]

... and nobody cares.

Two excellent reasons why videoblogging is a nonstarter.

blog appeal

[LiquidCoooled]

Isn't this just buffered webcam viewing?

Somehow the thought of actively browsing the web looking for random folks sticking their fingers up their noses and generally acting strange reminds me of a couple of years ago.

At least if these folks have gone wireless and are in public, they may behave a little more civilised.

Wasting bandwidth

[cloudmaster]

Hooray for the next big bandwidth waster! Everyone needs to stream not just text describing what I did today, and not just pictures, but full-friggin-motion video showing just what I may have done today!

Seriously, whose life is 1) so exciting that video clips are required for full appreciation and 2) not too exciting to have enough time to record the whole thing on video?

Re:Wasting bandwidth

[AntiPasto]

There's a lot of bandwidth to waste! BitTorrent works like a jet engine in the sense that the more people are interested in something, the more bandwidth there is available to get it. Conversely, you shouldn't worry too much as bad ideas will stay bad ideas and won't propogate much. BTW, have you seen harddrive prices lately? WTF are *you* putting on your 200 gig drive?

I doubt it will be more meaningful than photos

[gearmonger]

The reason text blogging became so big is that it's easily searched and, thus, easily found via search engines.

Photos are becoming better catalogued, but anyone who has used Google's image search will tell you, we're still a long way off from something akin to "good."

Video will pose even bigger problems for search engines, meaning that most video clips that are posted will be ignored. Only those with something really valuable (political scandal, hot chicks, etc.) *AND* easily found will see any significant distribution and/or audience.

Just my prediction...prolly wrong.

Re:I doubt it will be more meaningful than photos

[British]

The reason text blogging became so big is that it's easily searched and, thus, easily found via search engines.

I think you meant to say "easily pollutes search engines".

How do you speed-read a video?

[ZakMcCracken]

One reason why blogging (or reading in general, for that matter) is popular, is that you can access the content at your own pace.

Watching a video requires the willingness and ability to follow the pace of the videomaker--which restricts audience. While you can skim through a bad writer's rantings and see very quickly if there is anything of value in a couple of pages of text, doing so on video is impractical.

Additionally, a good-paced video is actually hard to edit, and not something that most of us have been trained for in school, contrary to writing.

Sounds like a gimmick doomed to fail.

Re:"....whooooooosh....."

[stratjakt]

I can't hear anything over the crickets.

(Why is "hey did you guyz know you can put video files on teh intarweb!" front page news on slashdot?)