Video Blogging
First we had text blogging, a traditional style blog like this blog. Then people had an idea to post photography on their blog called photolog.
Kevin Marks, Adam Curry, and Dave Winer then created a way to publish audio blog called podcasting.
Today, people are starting to create a new way of blogging called vlog, short for video blogging. A vlog is a blog where video is included in blog posts.
You can use your digital video camera, or anything that can be used to create a video. Because video is huge, you need to use Quicktime to compress the video.
Once you’re done, you can upload the video to a webserver or use ourmedia and link it to a blog entry.
The feed for vlog is the same with podcast. You need an RSS feed with enclosure. You can publish your feed via Feedburner or if you are movable type user you can use MT-Enclosure.
There are special resources on vlog out there, here are some of the one I find interesting: A step-by-step guide to setting up a videoblog for free, A place to find vbloggers, and Video Blogging Yahoo Groups.
Vlog is useful on my blog because I can now create a computer tutorial using a video to illustrate the reader, instead of using words to explain.
1. ambar 8 Jun 2005
William, thanks for your article. I did vblog today. It was easy than I thought. Salam