Are Video Blogs Ready For Prime Time? 204
Markmarkmark writes "Is video blogging ready for prime-time? Can Internet talking 'blog-heads' beat the talking heads on Fox? Is the next Andy Rooney-type commentator going to be a /.er? With new technology and a little creativity, this MSNBC article today thinks so. 'The big problems have been setting up lights and a camera in my study properly, so that I don't look dead, or hung over.'" The article is about the software / hardware it takes to set up a microstudio; the author does not really explore much about the video-blogging implications -- but you can.
A Day in the Life of a Geek? (Score:5, Interesting)
Is it possible that this whole "blogging" craze has been the fastest flash-in-the-pan to hit the technology world yet? Dare I dream that the even the uber-geeks and posers have already come to the conclusion that "hey, you know what? I'm not really that exciting, and nobody cares what I had for breakfast today"?
"Blogging" has graphically illustrated for me the old adage, "Just because you can, doesn't mean you shouldn't."
Re:A Day in the Life of a Geek? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:A Day in the Life of a Geek? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:A Day in the Life of a Geek? (Score:2)
Re:A Day in the Life of a Geek? (Score:5, Interesting)
Of course Video Blogs aren't the wave of the future. At least not the near future. It would be high bandwidth instead of low, it wouldn't be easily searchable or easy to catalog. It's an order of magnitude harder to do with no tangible benefits except for a little bit of "cool factor".
Re:A Day in the Life of a Geek? (Score:3, Insightful)
As a side note, technology like that would have incredibly beneficial implications for the television/movie world - imagine being able to index all the speech in a movie and bring up clips based on word usage. This would improve the gathering of footage for news programs and could make editing documentaries easier.
Re:A Day in the Life of a Geek? (Score:2)
Simple on a consumer Mac (Score:2)
All the tools you need come free with the OS - iMovie and umm... that's it.
Hook up your firewire (IE1394/iLink) MiniDV camera to your Mac, click "capture" and you're away.
You can edit, title, mess, add music and the exporting options are excellent.
It took my humble 600MHz iBook 45 minutes to encode a 3 minute video file in Quicktime (H.263 codec, u-law sound), so something with a bit more oomph (say, a powerbook) would cut this in half or more.
You can export to DV tape for home archive, and even encode at different rates to suit your audience. All you need is a broadband connection and a fair bit of space for hosting, plus a generous monthly bandwith allotment depending on how popular you get.
You could put up each video with a quick html file that contains keywords and info on the content to aid in cataloging and searching.
I agree, the content provision is difficult given the non-trivial cost of bandwidth, but I can see it happening.
Re:Simple on a consumer Mac (Score:2)
I have a Firewire equiped PC and a DV Cam. Yeah, I can do this just as easily. I have the added step of having to launch my favorite capture program before I hit the capture button. Perhaps you can educate me, but I realy, realy don't see what makes a Mac better than a PC for graphics and dv editing. People always go on about how easy it is, but it's easy on the PC too.
But this is all besides the point. PC OR Mac, it's not easier than HTML, and, I'm sure the idiot BLOG programs that I see everywhere make it even simpler. It takes seconds to update with text. I don't have to render a video stream. I don't have to do any editing beyond proofreading, and spellchecking. Upload is near instant. Download is too. And people can read it at their liesure. What advantage does video bring to the table? A bit of cool factor and loss of the ability to search, browse, etc. It's still easier for me to look in the index of a book than it is to look for a specific point in a DVD, even if I've seen it before. Yeah, there's technology that can catalog speach, etc. It's quite imperfect, and again, we're missing the point, even if they were 100%, what do I get out of the massive drive space, processor power, DB space, and everything else involved that makes this superior to text?
This is like an online Rube Goldberg Machine [rube-goldberg.com]. I just don't get the point.
Re:A Day in the Life of a Geek? (Score:2)
As far as video blogs (and blogs in general for that matter) are concerned, it brings to mind the old saying "Fools' names, like fools' faces, are often seen in public places".
Re:A Day in the Life of a Geek? (Score:5, Interesting)
Give me a service where I can hook up a text, picture, and video connection with my 'posse' and if I'm egocentric enough I'll take it.
The only blogs to make it into the mainstream - i.e. attract a wider audience than their network of friends - will have a tabloid interest - nudity, offensiveness, extreme views, or some other rally call. No offence to that special breed of
Personally I don't want my 'pub rants' preserved to be thrown back at me in 20 years time when Im up for head of the city council and one of my opponents wants to raise my past life as an ecoterrorist.
Oh Really? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Oh Really? (Score:5, Interesting)
There is obviously a large market for political writing, which is why such blogs are so popular. You don't have to read the same columnists over and over again, as political blogs contain many new voices and links to all sorts of news stories. Instapundit.com [instapundit.com] mainly contains links to other stories. But check out all the links to other blogs on the left side of the page. You have some blogs, like USS Clueless [denbeste.nu], that present lengthy analysis of the upcoming war. In the legal world, a blog about appeallate law, How Appealling [blogspot.com] is among the most popular blogs, but there are many legal blogs (sometimes called blawgs), as you can see from the compilation on Bag & Baggage [blogspot.com]. The key to these blogs I listed above isn't necessarily the content (and none of them are "what I did today" type blogs), it is the links to other stories.
Surely this will raise the quality of news... NOT (Score:2)
Re:A Day in the Life of a Geek? (Score:3, Interesting)
This is largely true but I would add that just being offensive or having extreme views is insufficient. The thing about popular bloggers like Glenn Reynolds (who probably just attracted a million viewers today - the "story" on MSNBC was one of his two blogs) is that they are actually expressing informed views on topics they have some expertise on - Glenn for instance isn't just some wacko spouting off about politics, he is a law professor that teaches constitutional law spouting off about politics - and that makes a big difference. The democratization of the media obviously results in a vast increase in the amount of dreck but among that dreck there are also some gems and they will tend to rise to the top & as they do they will be refined.
I tend think that the democratization of video will not (for the most part) be anything like "blogging" since even amateur video takes time and forethought and the appeal of blogging is for writers and amateur (and professional) thinkers & pundits to get out their thoughts quickly in an informal format. Bloggers may occasionally use video and will likely link to those that do as fodder for their blogs but very little of it would properly be called "video blogging". As an example of what I'm talking about I'm sure Glenn is thinking about "video" and "blogging" because of this little sarcastic man-on-the-street interview/documentary [brain-terminal.com] a conservative blogger did at the Peace march in NYC - it was amateurish but also pretty funny and fairly well done.
.plan files. (Score:2, Informative)
Remember John Carmack's (of id software fame)
I suppose it's really a catch-22, since famous/notable people generally do not share personal information on the internet. But that's exactly what it would take to generate a substantial volume of hits/reads per day.
Re:A Day in the Life of a Geek? (Score:3, Insightful)
Anytime I read an article on blogging, I wonder why:
A:) I've never met anyone personally who talks about them.
and B:) I've never, in all my research and surfing time, come across one. (Other than Dave Barry's, but that was from the
So I think I'll just ignore them until they go away, like I did with the Y2K thing.
Re:A Day in the Life of a Geek? (Score:4, Interesting)
If that's what you think Blogs are, you're reading the wrong ones. Nice strawman.
Decent blogs are either link centric, or commentary by someone who's smart. There are a number of crappy ones, but so what.
I think video blogs are a bad idea, because it eliminates some of the advantages of the text and static image based web; you can browse, skim, and follow links from text, and you have mroe flexibility in how you parcel out your attention (close read all at once, reading here and there while doing something else, etc)
I think there's *some* room for this kind of format though; anyone remember the very funny daily (and now defunct) Internet show "Computer Stew"? ZD Net pulled the plug alas, but they had some funny stuff...and the got started with less than $3000 of consumer grade hardware.
(Hmm, looks you can still see episodes [thesync.com] -- I should see if they still have their music video tribute to Notepad.exe
Re:A Day in the Life of a Geek? (Score:2)
Having a small, personal audience blog is great. It's the blogs that are clearly aiming for a mass audience yet have an excessively naval gazing attitude that really annoy. (Also annoying, and my page is a little guilty of this, are blogs that are just playing "best of" metafilter, slashdot, memepool, and/or boingboing.)
OK... (Score:5, Insightful)
Umm... no thanks.
Re:OK... (Score:5, Interesting)
The current rates for bandwidth at this scale are about $1/GB of transfer. You will be spending about $180 a year for bandwidth for just 500 people. By contrast, you can get a text blog out to 4000 people a day for $50 a year (easily).
Even then your blog is going to be low production quality, low recording quality, low compression quality, and in a postage stamp sized window. I wouldn't watch your blog.
Maybe the 500 person thing is a bit to high given that nobody will watch. But say your blog does get popular. You will be spending 35 cents for every person that views a 1 MB download every day for a year.
My back of the envelope calculations show that video blogging is not ready for primetime.
Incorrect figures (Score:2)
I host my site [bengarvey.com] at ipowerweb [ipowerweb.com] and their rates are $7.95/month for 30GB of traffic. That's about $0.27 per GB of data, not $1 as you claim. If your other figures are accurate, you can have 1000 daily visitors on a video blog for $96 a year.
Re:Incorrect figures (Score:2)
Re:Incorrect figures (Score:2)
Not to sound like a commercial, but ipowerweb's features aren't too bad either. PHP, Perl, MySQL, daily generated stats, etc.
Re:OK... (Score:2)
the problem isn't the price... (Score:3, Interesting)
To me, the real problems with video blogging have to do with the nature of video (and not the problem of bandwidth.)
[1] Text is random access which means that as a reader, i can scan through someone's text blog and read it as fast or as slow as i wish, and instantly skip the parts I don't want to read. Video is linear which means that in order to consume the ideas presented, you have to scan audio, text, and images in order even if you don't want to.
[2] While it will take you ten minutes to produce a compelling text paragraph with links and some light editing before you post, It takes exponentially more time to create the equivalent video "paragraph." And adding graphics and links within a text layer of a quicktime movie is really really advanced stuff. It's not the kind of stuff I see most people doing anytime soon.
That is why I'm a lot more excited by things like the WiFi2TV project [slashdot.org] that plugs the functionality of the internet into an existing video network. Although that also presents a number of problems. We'll have to see how that one goes.
Re:OK... (Score:2)
I wonder if the same people who think vlogs have no practical uses and the text blogging is much better would have been as staunch in defending newspapers against the introduction of the television newscast?
It's been done (Score:2, Funny)
I honestly hope it will NEVER be prime time (Score:5, Insightful)
I think text blogs (not even pictures) are much better - it depends on your ability to describe things well, and it puts a comfortable anonymity for you *and* your reader. Who was it that said "After TV is in every american household, you will never see another president in a wheelchair"?
Granted, often a picture is worth a thousand words - but I don't think video blog is worth the bandwidth / storage area. Even pictures needs to be sorted out to the last 5% of the cream before they are put on magazines, etc - video is just nasty. Slide show, maybe - video, no. (Just how many people go back and watch, minute my minute, their old family videos? exactly)
And yes, I blog; pretty regularly too, so maybe I don't speak with authority, I have (some) experience in this
Re:I honestly hope it will NEVER be prime time (Score:1)
You did. Argh, now I have too.
Re:I honestly hope it will NEVER be prime time (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, but what if you were reading your ex-girlfriend's blog? Don't you want to see the look in her eyes when she talks about how much she misses you and
Oh, wait, this is
Blog entry for today (Score:3, Funny)
Lets think about what makes good tv... (Score:1)
Re:Lets think about what makes good tv... (Score:1)
Because I'm a depressed, philosophical transsexual on acid.*
(*Except for the acid).
hmmmm (Score:1)
If it turns mainstream, can we have the bandwidth? (Score:5, Insightful)
Can the current Internet take that kind of an onslaught?
Re:If it turns mainstream, can we have the bandwid (Score:3, Insightful)
Now whether people would watch some weird geek's video blog is another story :)
Internet's strength is VOD (Score:2)
I suppose you could have a system where you could flag a Blog for caching, and it'd assemble the thing and let you know when it's done, ala TiVo. Then maybe have a daily multicast of each blog. But then you'd have to pick your blogs in advance.
As someone who works full-time in compressed video delivery technologies, video Blogs seem like a solution in search of a problem.
Re:If it turns mainstream, can we have the bandwid (Score:2)
You're missing the point. The question I raised had nothing to do with the probability of people wanting to watch these blogs. I'm simply hypothesising, and wondering if the net can take it or not.
Re:If it turns mainstream, can we have the bandwid (Score:2)
Already happening. FoxNews, MSNBC, et cetera.
Nerds on TV (Score:4, Funny)
His initial concern is for his appearance, doesn't sound like "news for nerds" to me....
video bloggs? (Score:1)
Joy!
Re:video bloggs? (Score:2)
One more step toward the irrelevence of literacy (Score:5, Insightful)
But at least we geeks had computers. They were arcane and baffling to most people. We had JCL. We had 80 column cards. We had numbers in bases 8 and 16 we dared to call "octal" and "hex". We had RCPM and BBSes and MODEMS. And we had nearly everything in text.
Now command lines aren't needed because of GUI interfaces (which seem easier at first but are a pain to use to get anything serious done). Don't get me wrong, I love good graphics (like watching the approaching storm on weather.com), but video weblogs will be another step towards turning the internet into interactive television. Watch screen. Move mouse. Click. Watch screen.
I'm tired. Would someone read Slashdot to me?
Re:One more step toward the irrelevence of literac (Score:1, Interesting)
That's right. Any now everyone has computers. The Internet isn't just for geeks anymore. Geeks will move on to other projects or seclude themselves somewhere that regular people wouldn't want to go. Slashdot for example!
Like blogging, if this becomes mainstream, don't expect to see the geeks being the #1 users, or even the target market.
Re:One more step toward the irrelevence of literac (Score:1)
Sorry, I have a dirty mind...
Re:One more step toward the irrelevence of literac (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, all serious graphic artists use the command line version of Photoshop.
Re:One more step toward the irrelevence of literac (Score:2)
It should all be text (or maybe ascii art-- he's not as clear on his stance here).
Re:One more step toward the irrelevence of literac (Score:2)
Re:One more step toward the irrelevence of literac (Score:2)
You're right. Can I have my next version of Photoshop in CLI mode only please? Using the mouse to design graphics is much harder than hand coding colors and pixel coordinates.
what's next? (Score:5, Insightful)
Otherwise, what's next? Slashdot video postings? Shudder.
Re:what's next? (Score:2)
In the world of punditry and commentary (which is very well represented among a certain class of bloggers), there also the messenger is the message.
I don't read Instapundit because I want to read some text written by god-knows-who: I read because I ask myself "What does Glenn Reynolds think about this subject?"
Re:what's next? (Score:2)
Re:what's next? (Score:2)
Great... (Score:2, Funny)
How about a video version of /. (Score:2, Funny)
Cameras (Score:3, Funny)
Always 'on' (Score:5, Insightful)
Ever read "The Light of Other Days" by Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clark?
ob.sig: My Cool Gadgets and Technology blog [blogspot.com]
all is vanity (Score:2)
Is this what people want? (Score:5, Insightful)
Just because you can provide video doesn't mean its the best format for weblogs.
Even with video phones I think you will still find more people SMS than audio call, and more people audio call than video call.
What utter pish! (Score:4, Insightful)
Yaaawn...
We want real news!
Re:What utter pish! (Score:2)
Yes. Preferably, something about pancakes [slashdot.org].
It's all about scanning... (Score:5, Insightful)
When I go to a web page, I can scan down it in a fraction of the time it would take to read the text. Voicemail and Video can't match that. Video can, if you are watching it for visual content instead of audio content. While you can "zzzzip" through messages on some voice mail systems, you still don't get what you could get from scanning a text message.
With video blogs, you would be forced to either watch for as long as it took the author(?) to record it, or miss parts. That is part of the "killer app" of email and current blogs that video blogs can't shake a stick at.
-Pete
Re:It's all about scanning... (Score:2)
"Television will never catch on for the same reason people hate the telephone after using the postal service."
???
Don't think so on this one... (Score:4, Insightful)
Not if they're by geeks, no (Score:5, Insightful)
This is the area where video blogs are likely to take off, for the same reason that standard weblogs shot up in popularity in the past two years. People are increasingly concerned with the state of international relations and public policy, and increasingly dissapointed in the established media's ability to keep up with events and to provide coverage that is compelling, insightful, and (perhaps most importantly), honest about it's bias. Many of these people have turned to weblogs to fill this information gap, and I think the same will be true of video blogs. I'd even venture to predict the possibility of the most popular video bloggers "going pro" - just like Reynolds when MSNBC offered him an online slot, perhaps we'll see major news networks give video bloggers space in their online, or maybe even broadcast, video feeds.
Repeat after me... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Repeat after me... (Score:2)
NO. Internet is not like any of those. Internet is fundamentally a communication network that allows people to talk to each other. Those other media are not.
See, I'm "talking to you" right now. If you were Dan Rather and said that "Internet is like TV" on TV, what chance would *I* have to respond?
Are Blogs of any Kind Worthwhile? (Score:2)
It might be fun to write blogs, but how many people are actually interested in them. Most blogs I see are just narcisistic capsules describing the innermost thoughts and feelings of some guy I don't know.
The problem with blogs is they are unstructured --- if you want to make a website about goldfish, make one about goldfish with nice links and structure. Don't just keep appending news --- no-one will be interested in scanning through it all to derive some information about a particular topic.
Video blogs make the situation worse --- searching is impossible and you'll end up with scores of media documents, once again about some average bloke's activities of the day.
This is like those guys who strapped cameras (before they were "webcams") to their head in the mid-90s and transmitted every unexciting moment of their unexciting day as a mathematics graduate student, before people Jennycam et al realised there is only one type of "video blog" that will successfully captivate web users.
A Common Question (Score:2)
Re:A Common Question (Score:3, Interesting)
Is news blogging important? Ask Trent Lott. The news about his racist comments was small news on an AP wire that no major news organization covered. Instapundit covered it immediately (after being pointed to it by Josh Marshall [talkingpointsmemo.com], another blogger. IIRC, the comments were made on a Thursday. Instapundit was all over the story, calling for his ouster by Friday and Saturday, but the major news organizations didn't cover the story until Tuesday.
Save Ferris (Score:4, Interesting)
I'm really surprised nobody has brought up Ferris Bueller so far. You know, all the scenes where he speaks to the camera?
Frankly, I would differentiate between something like a personal web page or diary or whatever other exhibitionist crap someone wants to put up on the internet (gawd I hate the term 'blog') and the kind of infotainment we're talking about here.
I see lots of parallels to public access TV. You could get some pretty quality, amusing and informative stuff (like someone reminding you that life moves pretty fast, so if you don't stop and look around every
once in a while, life might just pass you by) but a large majority of random pointless drivel running about.
Rant rant rant. And that didn't all just have a point...
Metered Internet will kill this off eventually (Score:4, Interesting)
So, no, I don't think video blogs are the wave of the future...
What you need to get started (Score:2)
Re:What you need to get started (Score:2)
There's no reason why you couldn't do the same with video files.
btw, I made Andromeda and if you're interested in trying this sort of thing, please let me know...
"Paid Articles" on news sites. (Score:2)
I hope Slashdot does not go down the same route. I have recently stopped reading The Register [theregister.co.uk] after a spate of blatent "Paid Articles".
do it yourself tv-show more like. (Score:2)
boring webcams exist already.. so to be anything different from them these 'video blogs' would have to have something intresting-> be more like tv-show than just mumbling that you took a dump at wc..
Damn Andy Rooney (Score:2)
He just reminds me of Abe Simpson wandering through a store...
"Look at these army toys! They break the first time I step on them!" [crushing army toys under slipper]
I used to watch 60min every week. I never watch it anymore.
remember (Score:2, Insightful)
Maybe video blogs aren't ready for prime time quite yet, but remember the words from H.M. Warner at Warner Brothers in 1927:
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
The next Andy Rooney... (Score:2)
Maybe the first will be Internet "rock star" Jon Katz ? He is nearly as relevant as Rooney.
Next at your service... (Score:2)
Pictures yes, now how about sound? (Score:2, Funny)
Herein lies the rub. Imagine sitting at work during a break or some other time, and looking at somebodys full-media blog: "Hello my name is Ashtead and I have been eating peanutbutter and jelly sandwiches for breakfast ... "
Sounding loud and clear over the cubicle farm.
Besides, I tend to laugh when finding some funny web-page, and some of my colleagues already want to know why I am laughing for no apparent reason (to them anyways). Are they now having to wonder who all these other people in here are?
There will be no more looking at and listening to these things at work anymore!
Which could possibly be a good thing, considering ...
Re:Pictures yes, now how about sound? (Score:2)
Unless you work in an Amish cubicle-farm I doubt your colleagues are as clueless as you think they are.
Other quotes to expect from your colleagues:
"But how does this buggy run without a horse?!"
"How did you get those little people inside the picture tube?"
Geeks in Space (Score:2)
On the other hand not only was it not convinient to make, but it wasn't convinient to listen to either. For me it is really hard to listen to Geeks in Space while working. I end up paying to much attention to the show. Also, you can't just run through it really fast like a blog. So it seems the format is inconvinient on both ends.
Re:Geeks in Space (Score:2)
Right now it is just a matter of priorities (aka getting it setup).
P2P Video Blogging (Score:2)
The Internet Archive [archive.org] currently uses it for distributing live concert recordings, so it should work great for video too.
Great for hot chicks (Score:2)
Why would I want that? (Score:2)
What is this obsession with movie media? I have already abandon the TV news since text on the internet is easier to digest for me. I can ignore the stories that don't interest me, and I can read whatever I'm interested in.
not ready for prime-time? (Score:2, Insightful)
use p2p.
A text blog can still be maintained, and the video could be made available there, whether it's streamed or a downloadable binary. You could even provide a transcript. But produce the video and release on a p2p network or three. Out of the 60 million people on kazaa, someone's likely to be interested, right?
Comparison- SF to geek (Score:2)
What I fear is that many of these vblogs would end up like one of those sequeneces off SF shows where the heroes review the last few log entries on some space station or whatever in order to understand "what happened here", except they will be far more boring...
Final Log Entries SF version:
"September 21st. I have been experimenting on the strange samples Dr. Weisman brought back from the crater. They seem to have some strange properties- more work is needed.
September 23rd. I don't know how to say this, but it seems as if the samples are multiplying- not just with time, but almost as if my observing them causes them to thrive. I can't really believe the test results- nothing like this has ever been seen before.
September 26th. The samples are speaking to me! They now form a mass approximately 4 feet high! I have been keeping my findings from the other scientists for fear of alarming them.
September 27th. 'Bob' (my name for the sample-mass, which is now 7 feet tall) has killed Dr. Weisman. I fear I may be next as Bob is becoming difficult to reason with. His constant claim that humanity is 'a bunch of lamers who deserve death' unnerves me."
Final Log Entries Geek version:
'April 3rd. I had this really great idea to build a model of the Tokyo Tower out of lego. I have downloaded the specs from the net and worked out how many bricks I need. Now I am saving up to buy them.
April 4th. I got bored of waiting until I had saved up, so I used my mom's credit card to order the bricks. I'll work out how to tell how I've borrowed the money later. Now to wait for my bricks!
April 17th. My bricks finally arrived! Mom was a little suspicicous when she answered the door to the package guy, but I told her I had taken advantage of an offer on paperclips from the internet.
April 28th. My Tokyo Tower is nearlly complete! I have had to ban my mom from my room so she doesn't see it. It reaches nearly to the ceiling- check it out!
March 5th. Horror! Mom got her credit card bill and went insane! She came up to my room and stomped all over the Tokyo Tower- it was like something out of Godzilla. I have been banned from the internet so this will be my last log."
graspee
Is a video blog even still a blog? (Score:2)
That said...
There might be something for giving some of these commentators a more vocal voice. The NOW thing in blogging is politics and social commentary. The blog format is great for it, and in fact, it pretty much changes everything. Little obsucure stories that might otherwise be glossed over, if they are important and engaging enough, are suddenly thrust into the mainstream eye. They change everything. Joshua Micah Marshell, Atrios, Brad DeLong, even Glenn Reynolds, it is rather amazing the amount of data and stories that are analyzed and released in a nicely cooked format. Not to mention that the skills of the average blogger are far and away far above those talking heads on TV, who forget what it is like being in the trenches.
Again, that said, do not expect to see video blogs for the longest time. The father of political blogging, as far as I am concerned, Bartcop [bartcop.com] is just getting into a radio format, let alone video. As well, the closest thing currently to this is the Joey Joe Joe Show [liberalresurgent.com]. Actually, I remember this old show, "Does Humor Belong In Technology", that may have been a perfect example of an audio blog. A live shoutcast done with IRC live feed back. dhbit.ca it seems. No longer a radio show, more like a small Slash style site. That may have been the first. It was damn good too. Too bad they stopped doing shows.
Actually this sounds like a great idea.... (Score:2)
Video-Blogging Software for Linux or Mac OS X? (Score:2, Informative)
Does anyone know of other software out there with similar features, that works on Linux or Mac OS X?
Some of it's very cool features:
- on-screen teleprompter
- real-time green-screen compositing
- cable news-style overlay text/graphics
I haven't found anything similar out there.
weblog (Score:2)
Meeting Halfway (Score:2, Informative)
Flash.
A flash blog can alternate text, links, pictures, sound, and video as needed; flash files take up less then half the space of a video clip; one can choose only the interesting parts to look at; indexing the various entries could be a bit more intuitive then having "entry030403[1].avi", "entry030403[2].avi", etc.; editing to add or correct information is easy (as opposed to nearly impossible to do smoothly in video without having to redo large portions); bloggers do not have to be shown onscreen as often; and if one needs to have a physical presence they can animate a perfectly servicable persona. I don't know of any development specific to flash blogs, but I'm sure it wouldn't be to hard to make something.
video is silly (Score:2)
video takes full attention. it also requires that people be presentable and have an acceptable voice. (thus the reason tv's talking heads are significantly composed of clueless decent looking quasi-ethnic morons)
reading a news blurb or blog entry is much quicker and less intrusive.
Re:Redundant (Score:1)
Re:Redundant (Score:1)
Yeah, it's far too similar to the catchy phrase Ogg Vorbis. People would get confused.
Not kill it, turn it into television... (Score:2)
Yup, they're retarded, but they're not trying to kill the web -- they're trying to turn it into television -- the only thing they understand.
Sorry, dude, your site is absolute drivel... (Score:2)