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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. Wasting bandwidth by cloudmaster · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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?

  2. I doubt it will be more meaningful than photos by gearmonger · · Score: 4, Insightful
    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.

    1. Re:I doubt it will be more meaningful than photos by British · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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".

  3. How do you speed-read a video? by ZakMcCracken · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.