Vloggers: Be Your Own Scorsese
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From tiny acorns grow mighty oaks. Like weblogs (blogs) before them, video blogs (vlogs) are emerging from a tightly knit online community and entering into a more mainstream Internet fare.Our consulting team at ICMediaDirect.com is working with more and more clients to utilize vlogging capabilities for website enhancement. Perhaps an introduction to video blogs is in order: before too long the handiwork of vloggers may be everywhere.
You could think of a vlog as blogging through video or, perhaps, keeping a video journal online. Vlogs, usually shot by digital video cams, can be viewed on a computer or downloaded onto a portable device for watching. The content of a vlog can be anything that your video cam can capture. Vlogs may document births or be online video diaries (or “confessionals” a reality TV standby). Short films are shot and available online in a vlog format and vloggers are capturing their local sporting events for online viewing pleasure, too.
Vlogs, like audio podcasts (which is sound only), are delivered via RSS feeds. Vlogs can also be tagged and archived. The popular video formats employed are: .mov (QuickTime), .wmv (Windows Media Player), .rm (RealMedia), and others.
Vloggers, like bloggers before them, are an enthusiastic bunch. Blogging grew in popularity because of the attraction of time sensitive online diaries. Bloggers liked, and still do, the ease in which they could post pictures alongside their thoughts. In fact, many blogs became more focused on picture posting than in written content. Visually rich blogs and picture posts were the forerunners of video logging. Ordered and available movie bits are a natural extension of a visually rich Internet.
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