Videoblog Revolution

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday November 9, 2004 @03:15AM 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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Word of Advice by Anonymous Coward · 2004-11-09 03:17 · Score: 5, Funny

Only do this if you are a hot chick
"....whooooooosh....." by RMH101 · 2004-11-09 03:17 · Score: 3, Funny

this is the sound of tumbleweed
1. Re:"....whooooooosh....." by stratjakt · 2004-11-09 03:38 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  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?)
  
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Not true.... by Kenja · 2004-11-09 03:18 · Score: 5, Funny

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.

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Bandwidth... by SunPin · 2004-11-09 03:19 · Score: 3, Insightful

... and nobody cares.

Two excellent reasons why videoblogging is a nonstarter.

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1. Re:Bandwidth... by Lev13than · 2004-11-09 03:22 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  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.
  
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2. Re:Bandwidth... by SunPin · 2004-11-09 03:31 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  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.
  
  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. :)
  
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blog appeal by LiquidCoooled · 2004-11-09 03:19 · Score: 3, Insightful

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.

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How much does it cost by stratjakt · 2004-11-09 03:20 · Score: 3, Funny

To advertise your blog on slashdot?

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Wasting bandwidth by cloudmaster · 2004-11-09 03:20 · 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?
1. Re:Wasting bandwidth by AntiPasto · 2004-11-09 03:54 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  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?
2. Re:Wasting bandwidth by mr_snarf · 2004-11-09 04:18 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Starts with "Po" and earns in "rn". Thats right, Popcorn!
  
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link whore by akb · 2004-11-09 03:21 · Score: 3, Interesting

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.
errrrrm by Prince+Vegeta+SSJ4 · 2004-11-09 03:25 · Score: 5, Funny

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.
I doubt it will be more meaningful than photos by gearmonger · 2004-11-09 03:25 · 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 · 2004-11-09 03:27 · 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".
How do you speed-read a video? by ZakMcCracken · 2004-11-09 03:28 · 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.
Re:Crash by Tony+Hoyle · 2004-11-09 03:44 · Score: 3, Informative

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