A 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 Metadata to provide context. It has became a significant contributor to Clip Culture .
Blogs often take advantage of RSS or Atom for Syndication to other web sites and Aggregator software (feed readers). With development of RSS Enclosure s, which provide the ability to attach media files to a feed item/blog post, or the use of the Atom format (which supports rich media content by design) it is possible to bypass the mainstream intermediaries and openly distribute media to the masses via the Internet. Vlogs typically take advantage of this Technological development, just as Audioblogs have in recent years via the Podcast boom.
As Of 2006 , videoblogging is rising in popularity, especially since the release of the new Apple Video IPod and the availability of ITunes Store's video content.
One of the potential problems with Vlogs is the current inability of Search Engine s 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 emerge.
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 defining a vlog as a genre limits innovation and ignores what he feels is more important: that the genre reduces barriers to media creation. In a later video, Experiment , he says, "... things like iTunes TV show downloads and videoblogs that are created to make money rather than communicate starting to alter the course of the public conversation. I say those kinds of things are not videoblogging".
- 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.
- Holland Wilde says, “One way to identify vlogging is through "intention": It's for YOU first, others second. It's for fun first, money and fame second. It's spontaneous first, produced second. Vlogging is for humans to express visual stories - to other humans. Vlogging is not an end in itself, but more an entree, an introduction, for meeting other vloggers, IN REAL LIFE.”
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.
: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''."
- 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 vlog directory to use an aggregator.
- September 2004 - iPodderX , the first desktop video aggregator, is released
- January 2005 - VloggerCon , the first videoblogger conference, is held in New York City. ANT (now: FireAnt) , is released.
- 1 February 2005 - Gabe McIntyre taught the first courses in creating video blogging at the College of Arts in Utrecht in a college curriculum.
- 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.
- October 2005 - Apple announces the 5G IPod will play video, and that iTunes Store will serve video content.
- February 2006 - Rocketboom ( rocketboom.com ), popular vlog earns $40,000 in eBay auction , promising five 15-second ad spots to ATM maker TRM.
- - 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.
- - Some vlogs cover news events.
- (also collective or group) - Some vlogs have a collaborative nature.
- - Some vlogs discuss political issues.
- - Some vlogs discuss environmental issues, nature, and natural history.
- - Some vlogs cut and analyze television, documentaries and other Mass Media .
- - Some vlogs are essentially independently produced TV shows or collections of short films by independent film makers.
- - Some vlogs collect videos from third parties.
- - Schools and universities are beginning to explore using vlogs as a teaching and creative medium.
- - Some vlogs show the backstage activity of film production or other arts and skills.
- - Some vlogs give advice, demonstrations, how-to's, and tutorials.
- - Vlogs that serve as a travelogue, exploring different places around the world.
- - Some vlogs discuss religious topics.
- - Some vlogs take the magazine or lifestyle approach.
- - 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.
- - Finally, some vlogs flirt between all of these categories, vlogs may also contain traditional blog posts amongst his or her various videos.
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