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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?"
... and nobody cares.
Two excellent reasons why videoblogging is a nonstarter.
Laws are for people with no friends.
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.
liqbase
To advertise your blog on slashdot?
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
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?
Demandmedia is a collaborative video blog, based on the Scoop collaborative engine, users submit links to cool grass roots produced videos from around the 'net and users vote on which ones they like. Most of the video is of interest to those on the left end of the political spectrum.
...is going to be the bill from whoever hosts your web server!
/.ing a page with video files is never a good idea!
sig.
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.
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.
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.
I can't believe no one else is catching this...
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"Captain's Log, Stardate blah blah blah blah blah..."
We're actually moving toward logging our days into a computer, and then when something goes wrong, investigators come in later and go through our personal logs to see what happened in the days leading up to.
Life is becoming one large, pathetic 'Trek episode.
God, I'm a geek.
(You made me wonderfully and perfectly so...I think?
Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the fact that you come and go).
please. "push" technology is the next big thing. pretty soon you'll all be running thin clients, getting push content, and riding segways. and there will be xml, and set-top boxes, and portals, and aeron chairs, and it will all be written in java. just you wait!
You have a configuration problem. Works fine here on firefox 1.0/win32.
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.
By syndicating .torrents automatically, channels of swarming mirroring can be formed to amass what could be called efficient broadcasting. On private lans, there's also no reason why you couldn't run VLC and Myth, and have a complete video network with on-demand-downloadable-by-bt type content, as well as redistribution of streaming media already out on the net (remember the internet tv article?)
This is big, and it is hot. It's not *entirely* the downfall of big media, but it is in fact the eventuality of big media as our channel list grows, and our options for consumption and means of consuming this media grow.
Some claim that this means TV and Film will die, or that all this material will end up looking like the lamest of public-access tv....
Well, public access TV looks almost exactly in production, quality, and distribution as mid-80's regionally-produced TV shows (like Romper Room, or Cleveland's SUPERHOST!)
Also, your kids are going to school and learning video production... on DV equipment in some cases.
So, it's not the end of big media... it's the start of a new decentralized wonder. It'll probably both be worse than today (ads that make Futurama's attempts at advertising parody not funny anymore), and much purer (how about a family, community, slashdot, or special interest group TV show? Commercial free?)
As a side note, some of these patterns will most likely be evident in tonight's Frontline on PBS about the "persuasion industry" ... I'll be watching that one!
Anyway, start looking into this stuff, because it is what you make it. If you want to bitch about it, well, start your own damn TV show.
If video blogging becomes popular, it will be on the coattails of something like Podcasting.
It is hard for me to imagine choosing to sit at a computer and watch someone talk, compared to being able to listen to them talk, anywhere, anytime, on my iPod.
Unless they are doing something interesting... well that leaves out the realms of home-reno, reality-tv, & porno, I guess (-:
Pixie
don't mess with those geekgrrls
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.
and iPodder will video blogging take off - if at all. I tried it using pMachine and a Nokia 3650 video phone and quickly realized; 1) I have a boring as s&^% life and 2) I'm one lazy Bas()*(^%.
Check it out here: www.videoblog.tv
Now there are a few new tools that will make the second problem less severe:
1) Wirecast & VideoCue by Vara Software
2) Live Channel by Channel Storm
3) RSS 2.0 with enclosures.
I disagree with the post about audioblogs. I load 'em up using iPodderX and then have an huge library of "talk pod" on my long drives. Adam Curry won't be able to take bong hits on a video blog however.
I'm sure I'm summarising someone else's comments here but I can think of loads of reasons why this simply won't work/goes against blogging principles: 1) Expensive (broadband, camcorder, etc.) 2) It's slow 3) It's hardly something you can just dip into - you have to dedicate a certain amount of time to a video blog. 4) It's less of an impromtu note or comment, more of a staged medium. Actually, I have this issue with all video- I really don't see why Joe Blog has much reason to record video- I'm (un)forunately in the wonderful world of retail selling digital cameras/camcorders and the like, and whilst I'm happy to mention the great video modes some of the digital cameras offer (50 sec shorts), I really have a hard time selling camcorders because I just can't the point. Good quality video takes all the expertise and time that an audio track, comic strip and short-story takes to produce- but tripled. Unforunately few people bother to put this much effort in, meaning that most of the world produces rubbish that they watch once (maybe twice) and then archive to be lost. I'm all one for holding onto memories, but video diaries seem pointless to me- better a snapshot here, a few words there, and a thought, rather than five minute sequence of titles, cheesy music/low quality banter and inane smiling. (Sorry to sound so cynical!)
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency (Eugene McCarthy)
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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Richer metadata is definitely an active topic in the community. Unfortunately, progress is slow as there's no agreement on how to represent a multimedia object and its potential related items (ie, different formats, different bitrates, a transcript, subtitles in another language, a shorter version, sign language representation, etc). Even if this problem is overcome, the difficulty in creating a transcript makes it not very likely that the searching problem will get better soon.
Anyone remember Ben Brown by chance? He was an early videoblogger with his Ben Brown show that went on for a number of episodes. (It seemed like a creative outlet for an unemployed techie.) It was pretty well known to the Metafilter/Fark crowd, at least.
He went away, but I have to say, that was a pretty good archetype for the video blogger. Just I think that video bloggers have even more of a problem in that they're not easily searchable, and one has to dedicate time to see the content more than pictures or text. It is far easier to turn people off than to turn them on because of the time a viewer needs to invest.