blogging shares many common traits

with letter writing / diary keeping – it is periodic, its is a dialog

and unlike say, a phone conversation, it is author-centric(very

much 1st person in its content) and it is a cumulative form of

story telling.

So, what

can a video blog do or rather, what can I do with a video blog that

I cannot do with other mediums? It attracts me because of this

unique combination of traits in a visual medium. It is irrelevant to

me if its content is edited or `real' or `art'. What is most

interesting to me is that it provides a way to tell a story that could

eliminate worn-out narrative forms without relying on

`postmodern' or ironic or self-aware tricks, most of which are

rapidly becoming traps.

I've

posted a few video entries on my blog, but it's a lot of work, and

the bandwidth usage is a bit scary.

By the end of 2004, bloggers
were using the ability to add video as an enclosure to an
RSS feed, allowing viewers to subscribe to videos and have
them delivered automatically to their computers. This solved
the problem of click and wait, where you had to wait for a
video to start playing when you clicked on it from a web
page.

podcasting (both video and
audio) is a bottom-up movement and squarely the domain of
individuals who are being guided by human creativity and
expression, rather than corporate agendas and economic
exigencies.

With the cost of video cameras in the hundreds,
sophisticated computers with video editing software
available for just over a grand, and high speed always-on
internet connections costing less than the average cable
television subscription, the means of both production and
distribution are now in the hands of practically anyone with
something to say

genuine conversation with their audience,

Marhshall McLuhan argued that in each socio-cultural era
the medium in which information is created and transmitted
determines the essential characteristics of that culture. He
also predicted the evolution of an interconnected "global village".  The shift from a centralized media industry
modeled on industrial revolution structures to a
decentralized chaotic information-age soup is having a
profound effect on the messages we exchange and shaping the
characteristics of our culture. The global village comes to
a crescendo with podcasting, and you can participate in the
revolution with tools that are easily within reach: your
imagination, the computer you're using to read this web
page, and a video camera. We're not going to predicting
what's next, as that's going to depend on what you, yes you,
plan to do with new media. If the flutter of one butterfly wing, can
trigger a chain reaction of events resulting in a storm
half-way across the planet, imagine the effect millions, or
billions, of individually produced videos will have on the
characteristic of the global village and the media
landscape.

most new computers come with free video editing software

You don't even need a video camera to start
videoblogging, the mashup culture is in full force

A large group
of vloggers, over 2,000 at last count, actively participate
in the Yahoo! Videoblogging
Group from all over the world.

Rocketboom has 250,000 visitors a day, and that number is rising fast.

Vimeo is a video sharing version of Flickr from Zach Klein, Jakob Lodwick, two of the founders of the popular CollegeHumor site. It was purely a pet project by Lodwick, but now has around 3,000 members

Mefeedia and FireANT, from the folks at the videoblogging group. Then of course, there is Ourmedia, the nonprofit that offers free grassroots publishing tools and online storage space for video blogs

The next iteration of Flash, Flash Professional MX 2004, solved those issues. Instead of embedding video into the Flash timeline, developers and designers could stream video from a web server.

the FLV format became an output format for all of the major video editing applications, including QuickTime.

In 2004 Flash Video was still a bit of a novelty

Brolsma’s video singlehandedly justifies the existence of webcams. His squarish head and shoulders are in the center of the shot. He’s got a short haircut, glasses that are slightly too small for him and reflect his computer’s monitor, and cheap headphones; he’s sitting in a dismal-looking suburban room. And he is going for it: rolling his eyes back in his head, shaking his face, shooting his hands into the air with the beat, saluting along with the word salut, gesturing grandly, lip-synching the whole thing with his grand opera of a mouth, flirting with the camera, utterly given over to the music. It’s a movie of someone who is having the time of his life, wants to share his joy with everyone, and doesn’t care what anyone else thinks.

Type numa numa into Google Video’s search box, and you’ll get well over 400 hits; in YouTube’s, you’ll get over 1,500. Virtually all of the results are cut from a single template.

they start to look less like an infectious joke than like a new cultural order. These kids aren’t mocking the Numa Numa Guy; they’re venerating him. They are geeks honoring the King of the Geeks, and they’re beautiful to see, because they’re replicating and spreading his happiness. They’re following a ritual that’s meaningful if not yet venerable: learning the dance, lip-synching the song, documenting their performance just so, making it available for the world to see.

As with the Emo kids, it seems that these two women are not real people.
Littleloca is actress Stevie Ryan and her friend is named Monica.

Last week he announced that he had signed up with a TV production company
and will no longer be making videos for YouTube.