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About this siteFor six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul Thursday, June 05, 2003Video blogs are NOT blogsSorry, but it's true. Blogging is meant to be off-the-cuff, a mental dump of the author's thoughts. Video blogging, by definition, is most definitely not blogging. Why? Because it's pre-staged, heavily produced, requires a script, and takes hours to work up even a short film. So what is a video blog? Off the cuff (this is a blog, after all), I'd have to say it's something completely different. Something really lame. The result of way too much free time. Or all of the above. Take your pick, they all apply. So does this mean multimedia is strictly forbidden for bloggers? Not at all. In fact, you could make a great case for audio blogging (dare I invent the term aublogging?), since people with Pocket PCs, Palm devices, Macs, PCs, or dedicated portable recording devices could (and arguably do) make off-the-cuff audio comments as they go about their day. The same is true with digital photography. But no one--and I mean no one--can say the same thing for video. No one normal is walking around with a video camera pointed at their face, unless they happen to work for a cable TV show, a local news channel or whatever, and even then some serious post-processing has to occur before that content is ready for the Web. If I catch anyone I know making video blogs, it's going to be wedgie time. :) Update: Naturally, audio blogging already exists though it's called audblogging not aublogging. Thanks Chris M. Update 2: Predictably, Blogger has an audio blogging tool too, called Audio Blogger. I guess I could have done ten seconds of research before posting this. No, screw that, this is a blog, not a research paper. :) [ Posted at 4:41 PM | Permalink ]
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