August 8, 2004
Forget the bloggers, it's the vloggers showing the way on the internet
The Guardian reports on the latest internet trend: video logging or vlogging. One step up from the now familiar internet blogger, vloggers upload personal video clips of everything from the US Democratic convention to what they had for their tea, via rants about tax rises and conspiracy theories.
"In its most basic form, vlogging does not require very hi-tech equipment: a digital video camera, a high-speed connection and a host are all that is needed. It is still not an easy pursuit, but the gradual simplification of the technology is bringing an increasing number of people into vlogging - and politicising it.
There are still only a few hundred vlogging sites on the web - compared with literally thousands of blogging sites - but Steve Garfield, a video producer from Boston, Massachusetts, predicts that more internet users will get involved in vlogging once the technological barriers come down."
cf The Guardian's selection of vlogs,
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