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A vlog or video blog is a blog (short for weblog) which uses video as the primary content; the video is linked to within a videoblog post and usually accompanied by supporting text, image, and additional meta data to provide context.

Blogs often take advantage of RSS for syndication to other web sites and aggregator software (rss readers). With the inclusion of RSS Enclosures, which provides the ability to attach media files to a feed item/blog post, it is possible to bypass the mainstream intermediaries and openly distribute media to the masses via the Internet. Vlogs are beginning to take advantage of this technological development, just as audioblogs have in recent years via the podcast boom.

One of the potential problems with Vlogs is the current inability of search engines to create rich metadata or "search engine" data from the stream. For Vlogs to be fully embraced as part of web culture, some indexing solution will need to emerege.

Definitions

Vlog is not a genre, it is a broad description of what is delivered technologically, meaning that it includes video and other content.

Several manifestos, most delivered as video, have tried to address the question of definition:

  • Michael Verdi's Vlog Anarchy, where he states that by defining a vlog as a genre, we limit innovation and ignore what he feels is more important, i.e. that the genre reduces barriers to media creation.
  • Adrian Miles, in his paper Media Rich versus Rich Media, states that because blogs are highly granular, a vlog or videoblog by definition must also be highly granular. Thus, linear 'closed' video works which are commonly recognised as vlog posts, by virtue of their low granularity, are simply 'video in a blog' and not technically videoblogging. In his paper, Miles offers several examples of where vlogging and interactive media may be headed in this respect.

There is a small but growing number of vloggers who believe that videoblogging will transform the Internet into a medium in which people can communicate audiovisually through personal video posts and globally network with people as well as to create new independent programming and content not controlled by major broadcasting networks or cable outlets. These practices revolutionize online communication.

Video can also be uploaded to a moblog. These works are typically shorter, unedited clips uploaded directly from a video capable camera phone. Moblogs with video, while not generally recognised as such, are also technically vlogs.

History

  • 1966 Douglas Engelbart demonstrates (analog) videoconferencing over a network. source
  • 1970 AT&T offers Picturephone for $160 per month
  • 1998 Adrian Miles publishes a paper called Cinematic Paradigms for Hypertext
  • November 2000 Adrian Miles posts his first (known) videoblog entry ever on November 27, 2000.
  • In early 2000s, various experiments with "video blogging", never take off.
  • In 2004, Steve Garfield announces 2004 is the year of the videoblog. There are still only a handful of regular videobloggers.
  • June 2004 - Peter Van Dijck and Jay Dedman start the Yahoo Videoblogging Group, which becomes the center of a community of vloggers.
  • During the second half of 2004, big media discovers videoblogging, with articles in the NYT and a few others.
  • December 2004 - mefeedia.com is the first video aggregator and vlog directory.
  • January 2005 - VloggerCon, the first videoblogger conference, is held in New York City. ANT (now: FireAnt), the first desktop video aggregator, is released.
  • February 2005 - FreeVlog, a step-by-step guide to setting up a videoblog using free tools and services, launches.
  • May 2005 - vlogdir.com, the videoblog directory launches.
  • June 2005 - The Yahoo Videoblogging Group grows to over 1,000 members.
  • July 2005 - VlogMap.org launches using Google Maps and Google Earth to display vloggers worldwide.
  • July 2005 - videobloggers.org launches providing another free hosting service courtesy of ibiblio.org. Site also serves as a vlogosphere content aggregator.
  • October 2005 - Apple announces the 5G iPod will play video.

See also

External links

Tools

  • Freevlog.org - How to vlog - video tutorials
  • Feevlog.com - Using paid blogging services to get your video on the web
  • FireANT (formerly ANT) - RSS media aggregator and player
  • Mefeedia.com - Browser based video aggregator with tagging
  • Vlogdir.com - Videoblog Directory, Media Aggregator and Community
  • Videobloggers.org - Free Hosting for vloggers courtesy of ibiblio.org (hosting @ videobloggers.org) and a vlogoshpere content aggregator.
  • Vlogmap.org - Geographic directory of video blogs presented with Google Maps and Google Earth
  • 49Media.com - Magazin for Weblog Media: Images, Podcasts, Videoblogs and Events
  • Participatory Culture - Project to build an easy-to-use, cross-platform, open-source video publishing system ("Broadcast Machine") and video player ("DTV").
  • medicinefilms - Online Community for Assignment-based video blogging
  • Videoblogging Universe - Previews of the latest vlogs, a human-reviewed directory, tools to make your own vlogroll, and a vloggers webring.
  • MediaTuner.com - Flash-based media viewer and player
  • BroadSnatch - Web-based media aggregator with search and social tagging/rating
  • GJVideo - Multi user video blog
  • Vlog Videoblog France - A Blog for french Vloggers with Vlog links, news, tools and information
  • Vlog-Cal - Vlogosphere Event Calendar
  • Podcast Teleprompter - Edit Podcasts or Vlogs to Clean up Recordings (www.VBlogPro.com)

Vlog Hosting

  • Ourmedia.org - Free Hosting for vloggers courtesy of the Internet Archive (hosting @ ourmedia.org)
  • Video Google - Free video host. No limit on file size or number of videos
  • Vimeo - Free video hosting community. Upload by email / mobile phone; up to 20megs per week.
  • Current TV - Free video hosting community and channel (Direct TV 366). Files Mov/WMV Only.
  • blip.tv - Video blog service
  • Zippy Videos - Free video hosting community. 20meg file limit, no limit on number of videos.
  • YouTube - Free flash based video hosting community. 100meg file max, no limit on the number of videos
  • OnfuegO - A free vlog host and community

Common Genres

  • Personal - Many vlogs are personal. Creators may document their daily lives, recount stories from the past, or air their opinions about various topics. This genre is as varied as the personalities that make personal vlogs.
  • News - Some vlogs cover news events.
  • Collaborative (also collective or group) - Some vlogs have a collaborative nature.
  • Political - Some vlogs discuss political issues.
  • 3rd Party Collections - Some vlogs collect videos from 3rd parties.
  • Behind The Scenes - Some vlogs show the backstage activity of film production or other arts and skills.
  • Tutorial - Some vlogs give advice, demonstrations, how-to's, and tutorials.
  • Religious - Some vlogs discuss religious topics.
  • Magazine Type or Lifestyles - Some vlogs take the magazine or lifestyle approach.
  • Assignment-Based - Some vloggers work from "assignments," or prompts, within online communities of similar vloggers. Assignment-based vlogging also tends to be more collaborative, as every assignment-based vlog is a collaboration between the assignment's creator and the video's creator.
  • Vlog Anarchy - Finally, some vlogs flirt between all of these categories, vlogs may also contain traditional blog posts amongst his or her various videos.

Terminology

  • Vlogosphere
    • Meaning: Vlogosphere is the collective term encompassing all videoblogs or vlogs; vlogs as a community; vlogs as a social network. Derivative of Blogosphere.
    • Usage: "I've found quite a few cat videos while wandering around the vlogosphere".
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