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Ever since we put up http://videoblogging.info, I get emails from people asking how they can get started videoblogging.
I mean this is great..this is exactly why we made the site…to help new people…because they are what bring freshness to the medium.

So this is the latest email I received.
Its a perfect example of who is coming to the scene.
Read it, then I have a question for you.

>Hello

>I’m trying to know how I could start a video blog as
>I’m about to leave on a one year university exchange
>program from France to Japan. I’ve been surfing the
>web for the past days and yet haven’t really
>understood how blogs work.

>Thank you for your article on videoblogging.info which
>taught me how to export my video into Quicktime.
>But I haven’t figured out yet how to get started.

>Who should I pick to host my site? Which sites are
>free? But if I pick a free site will I have enough
>storage room? And do I need extra software?

>I’m just looking for a very easy and convenient way to
>share my iMovies and Final Cut Express movies.

>Thank you in advance for your time and any help you’ll
>be able to give me

>Sincerely,
>XXXX

She doesnt know anything about blogs. Wow.
You remember when you were lat the beginning?
See, this is where most people are…and I forget this because everyone I know online probably understands much more than I do.
But it’s the people who dont get into the programming and geeky stuff who will be the best creators.
They just want the tools.
So here’s my question:
how do you explain to her how to begin?

Recently I posted a video.
Then Charlene responded with a video of her own.
Then,,,Shannon got into the conversation by posting this video.

Now Mica says it best:
“this little interactive game has gone wordless primarily mummbles and grunts? but communicating nonetheless..using the tools to show yourself saying nothing….”

You could not have this interaction with anything other than videoblogging.
I have never met either of these people, but video lets me get to know them.
Sure the anonymity of text blogging is great. Writing lets us express ourselves in ways we don’t in person.
But with video added to text, our language is expanding exponentially.
It’s closer.
Like I said earlier, we are entering new places here with videoblogging.

I want to say that my videos suddenly load AT ONCE.
They have loaded so slow up till now.
TYPEPAD has done some improvements just like they said they would.

Some of you may use TYPEPAD like I do to host your video blog.
They’re easy, cheap, and good at responding to questions.
The videoblog group has been discussing bandwidth issues.
So I had to ask them…..

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On August 12, 2004 02:01 PM, you (Jay) said:

We are wondering what happens if our blogs become popular and our bandwisth is exceeded for the month.
does Typead automatically shut it down?
or are we hit with a huge bill?
many of us in our group host video and bandwisth goes fast…
videoblogging is on the rise.

thanks
Jay

On August 12, 2004 02:55 PM, TypePad Customer Support said:

Hi Jay,

Right now, we have the bandwidth and spaces monitors turned off to increase the speed on our servers. Until we have them
turned back on and prices made up for overages, we won’t be charging for going over. When we get this figured out, there will
be an announcement on the TypePad site.

Thanks,
Kristine
_______________

So this is cool for now, but for how long?
It couldnt have worked out better.
Basically we can explore and upload and post videos as much as we want.
Just what we need at first as we’re trying to develop the art of Videoblogging.
When the time comes to keep track of storage and bandwidth…we will have figured something out by then.

This is just another test.

Jay, I hope you don’t mind my posting this as an end-to-end test.
– Sean

(please leave a comment if you have problems viewing this video….)

Steve got a hit of the fever today.
Once you start thinking about the possibilities of videoblogging, you can’t stop.
He even has proof of concept.

“I’ve got a new word, V-Span.
It’s like C-Span where we get coverage of events that are not
normally covered by mainstream media.

“V-Span is Citizen Journalists who are there with their video cameras,
documenting events as they happen.”

“When this gets popular, we’ll be able to see things that up till now,
we’ve just been able to read about in the newspapers.”

“I just drove by the Loius Boston, where the Red Hot Chilli Peppers
were performing.
I stuck my cell phone put he window and recorded the audio directly to
my blogger blog with the new audioblogger.”

“Listen to poor quality audio here:
http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2004/07/red-hot-chilli-peppers-
drive-by.html”

“Just wait until we can stick out cell phone / video recorder and post
that directly to our blogs!
That’ll be amazing.”

Two days ago I posted a question about why the Japanese don’t videoblog?
Especially since they have all those cool videophones…
I got an answer the next day:

Q: What’s the Japanese word for videobog?
A:ビデオブログ (Videoblog)

> You ask: ” I expected to find all these Japanese sites with videoblogs. Why?”
> Sheesh. They’re Japanese: 100 years in the hardware furture and 100 years behind in software.
> My standard Japanese company joke:
> Q: “What do you call a salaryman with an opinion?”
> A: “Unemployed.”
> Blogging is not as big in Japan because having an opinion is gauche.

Check out in English: Video Link Japan – Streaming Video Blog From Tokyo
Unfortunately the videos are only in Real and Windows Media. For whatever reason I really Quicktime because it’s so clean and loads easily.

Some Japanese translations….I really like the name “knowledge blog” or K-Log.
オーディオブログ（Audioblog）、写真ブログ（Fotolog）、法律ブログ（Blawg）、ダイジェストブログ（Digest blog）Warblog、マット・ウェルチ発明）、日記ブログ（Journal blogとDiary blog）、知識ブログ（Knowledge Log、Klog、K-Blog）、ニュースブログ（News blogs）、専門家ブログ（Pundit blog）、技術ブログ（Tech blog）、グループブログ（Group blog）、移動ブログ（Moblog）、などが挙げられる。

No link. No article here.
In all my videoblog searching as of 6/04, I expected to find all these Japanese sites with videoblogs.
Why?
Because don’t they have all those cool, new cell phones that the US won’t have till 2012?
They have 5 megapixel cameras with email attachments, etc.
But where do they put their videos?
It’s strange to me that a whole society lives on the other side of the Earth and have no idea what they’re up to.
My news doesn’t tell me because it’s a peaceful place.

Maybe I missed them in my search.
Anyone help?

Why We Need Video Aggregators

“Revolutionary Technology – The idea of a video aggregator has garnered some interest from diverse corners of the ‘Sphere. People who understand the technical side of aggregating video assure the Dowbrigade that the technology exists now, and needs only be made easier to use by non-geeks, and then marketed to the masses.

We will leave to others the working out of the details of the technical standards and rountines necessary to make this work. What we find more interesting is the rationale behind the need for even HAVING a video aggregator; to crack the monopoly that BigMedia, Inc. has on our nation’s TV sets….”

Here’s an obvious good article from 2/04. The premise goes…if regular people all over the world could put video on the web, we would all have the correct information to make informed choices.
The rub is that people need to be taught how to put video on the web.
We have to create an audience for it.
We need better tools to make it simpler.

Right now, probably the most watched video on the web is the latest guy getting his head cut off by Muslim fundamentalists.
Bad stuff, but very powerful.
These are guys who would get little airtime what so ever in the old media world.
Now they do what they want.
Are we ready for this?
What are you going to show us?

Original article

“I had a “VIDEO BLOG” on my personal web page back in 1995. I was also emailing video clips to my friends and colleagues too. Yes, this is when REAL Media was conquering the world with streaming AUDIO and there were no CDN’s or billion dollar streaming companies……”

These last 10 or so posts are from my researching videoblogging on the web.
I’m sunburned from sitting on a lake all day, but I’m slowly going through every page on the net that say “videoblog”.
Most posts aren’t really videoblogging.
Some blogs have ONE video on their entire site, then just kind of forget about video.
So the business people try to figure out where the profit is, the techy people try to figure out how to make videoblogs work better, and the bloggers are kind of ignoring the whole thing.
It’s good to see some of our videoblogging group in the comments on these different sites.
I haven’t found a videoblogging group anywhere.
I think this is important for people to come together and create a new process.
Videoblogging must be tested over time in a group.

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