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The Guardian of London has a great article about video blogs,
or vlogs, featuring the very slick site put together by Luuk
Bouwman:
Mr Bouwman is the vanguard of the latest internet trend: video logging
or vlogging. One step up from the now familiar internet blogger, vloggers
upload personal video clips of everything from the US Democratic convention
to what they had for their tea, via rants about tax rises and conspiracy
theories.
The article also quotes extensively from fellow Convention blogger Steve
Garfield,who has an excellent vlog of this own:
Steve Garfield, a video producer from Boston, Massachusetts, has no
problems with the medium. He uses his website to be a "citizen journalist",
which he describes as "anyone who decides to tell a story and share
it".
Mr Garfield posts about two vlogs a week, on everything from beer and local human
interest stories to an off-beat daily report from the recent Democratic convention.
There are still only a few hundred vlogging sites on the web – compared with
literally thousands of blogging sites – but Mr Garfield predicts that more internet
users will get involved in vlogging once the technological barriers come down.
"As tools come out that make it easier, more people will start creating
video blogs," he says. "The barriers to entry now are the number of
steps it takes to get a video published on the web. You’ve got to shoot the video,
digitise it, edit it, compress it for web delivery, upload it to a host and post
it to your blog."
We wanna try, we wanna try…
Guardian article
Steve’s vlog
Luuk’s vlog
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