Videoblogging – jump on the bandwagon
Response to Jennifer Woodard Maderazo’s ‘Five Videoblogs that do it right’ – WEEK 9
Maderazo’s article really got me thinking this week about the sensation of videoblogging.
Mobile phones have come equipped with cameras, video tools and video-calling for a couple of years now, giving people the opportunity to film themselves (and others). These functions are now almost universal on all new phones, which leads me to think that videoblogging was always waiting in the wings for some media-savvy techno to come and discover it.
Maderazo hits the nail on the head when she says that you can catch an episode of a blog “without feeling that it’s interfering with your life”. This is exactly why good videoblogs are so satisfying.
Multimedia has increasingly allowed consumers to express themselves in new ways, and videoblogs are a prime example. Videoblogging also demonstrates how consumers have changed positions in the media world – they now make news as well as consume it. Sometimes their blogs become as much a part of news as the work of professional journalists.
Blogs such as Perez Hilton’s are often a source of information for gossip magazines, which monitor his blog for the latest celebrity information.
Click on the links below to visit the blogs listed in Maderazo’s article. Also listed are sites to help you learn more about videoblogging.
· http://www.aliveinbaghdad.org/
· http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7005.pdf
· http://brianwynn.blogspot.com/2007/12/getting-started-
with-videoblogging.html
· http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/mikeg/Lists/Posts/
Post.aspx?List=1b3bbb8f%2D4b5a%2D4f72%2D94c4%2D94cb80bc3866&ID=1165
This is one of the ‘Ask A Ninja’ blogs – the topic is podcasting
