What is a vlog ?
A vlog is a weblog which uses video as its primary presentation format. It is primarily a medium for distributing video content. Vlog posts are usually accompanied by text, image, and additional meta data to provide a context or overview for the video. Vlogs or videoblogs are created by vloggers or videobloggers, while the act itself is referred to as vlogging or videoblogging.
Definitions
Vloggers themselves have discussed definitions regularly since 2004, but can't seem to agree on one.
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 feel that videoblogging transforms the Internet into a medium in which people communicate audiovisually with personal video posts, network, and create programming and content not controlled by major broadcasting networks or cable outlets. RSS feeds with enclosures bypass traditional distribution systems of the mainstream media, and deliver video content to various aggregation clients and web sites. 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 videoconferencing over a network. source
- 1970 AT&T offers Picturephone for $160 per month
- 1998 AdrianMiles 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.
See also
External links
Tools
Genres
Personal
Many vlogs are personal, or narcissistic, and consequently of little value. Some recount activities that happened that day. Others seek to document events that may be of interest as a way to learn abt other things, place, thought, -which are not in the typical purview.
News
Collaborative (also collective or group)
Political
3rd Party Collections
Behind The Scenes
Tutorial
Religious
Magazine Type or Lifestyles
Assignment-Based
Some vloggers work from "assignments," or prompts, within online communities of similar vloggers, such as MedicineFilms. These short, personal videos encompass the same content as conventional vlogs, but often address it more creatively or artistically. 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.
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".
This article is licensed under the http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlog Wikipedia article "Vlog".
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