Video blogging

Video blogging, sometimes shortened to vlogging [ Blip.tv Brings Vlogs to Masses [http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=20843 Red Herring] ] [ Prime Time for Vlogs? [http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/05/01/8375939/ CNNMoney.com] ] [ Will video kill the blogging star? [http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050613/news_lz1b13vlog.html San Diego Union Tribune] ] is a form of blogging for which the medium is video. [ Media Revolution: Podcasting [http://www.nefilm.com/news/archives/2006/02/podcasting.htm New England Film] ] Entries are made regularly and often combine embedded video or a video link with supporting text, images, and other metadata.

Video logs (vlogs) also often take advantage of web syndication to allow for the distribution of video over the Internet using either the RSS or Atom syndication formats, for automatic aggregation and playback on mobile devices and personal computers (See video podcast).

History

Video blogging arose as a video form of blogging.

Vlogging saw a strong increase in popularity beginning in 2005. The Yahoo! Videoblogging Group saw its membership increase dramatically in 2005 . The most popular video sharing site to date, YouTube, founded in February 2005, was publicly launched between August and November 2005 Fact|date=May 2007. The BBC launched their first official video blog in October 2006, with a feature allowing children to name a new Blue Peter puppy. Cite web
url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bluepeter/2006/10/the_pups_have_arrived.shtml
title=The Pups Have Arrived!!
last=Akinwolere
first=Andy
publisher=BBC
date=2006-10-02
accessdate=2008-05-22] Many open source content management systems, like Joomla, WordPress, or Drupal, enable posting of video content allowing bloggers to host and administer their own video blogging sites. Moreover, convergence of mobile phones with digital cameras allow publishing of video content to the Web almost as it is recorded. [ [http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/530925.php Mobile blogging for journalists] ]

Significant events in the development of video blogs

* 2000, January 2 - Adam Kontras launches the first (known) video blog, [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://4tvs.com] [http://www.4tvs.com/Journey/Pages/journey.html The Journey] , detailing his move to Los Angeles and his attempt at showbusiness. He would later host a segment on The Early Show. [http://www.4tvs.com/series/egos.html]
* 2003, June 15 - Nacho Durán launches the first (known) South American (Sao Paulo, Brazil) videoblog based on soundless loops made out of sequences of pictures daily taken from a portable webcam.Videoblog Feitoamouse: First South American Videoblog [http://www.feitoamouse.org/videoblog/03/junio/030615.htm First Video-Post on 2003, June 15] ]
* 2004, January 1 - Steve Garfield launches his videoblog and declares that 2004 would be the year of the video blog.2004: The Year of the Video Blog [http://stevegarfield.blogs.com/videoblog/2004/01/index.html Steve Garfield] ] I like to watch: Video blogging is ready for its close-up [http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/top/features/documents/05145823.asp Mike Miliard, Boston Phoenix] ]
* 2004, June 1 - Peter Van Dijck and Jay Dedman start the Yahoo! Videoblogging Group, which becomes the center of a community of vloggers [ [http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2004/nf20041229_0845_db016.htm Let a Million Videos Bloom Online] ] [Vlogs, glogs, moblogs... il dibattito sul nome di un fenomeno in espansione [http://www.lastampa.it/_web/_RUBRICHE/cinema/cineweb/cybercinema/cybercinema050808.asp La Stampa Web] ]
* 2005, January - Vloggercon, the first videoblogger conference, is held in New York City. [Watch me@Vlog [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/City_Supplements/Delhi_Times/Watch_meVlog/articleshow/msid-1184088,curpg-1.cms The Times of India] ]
* 2005, July 20 - The Yahoo! Videoblogging Group grows to over 1,000 members. [Blogging + Video = Vlogging [http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2005/07/68171 Wired News] ] Those darn video blogging pioneers [http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2005/08/those_darn_vide.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting BusinessWeek] ]
* 2006, July - YouTube has become the 5th most popular web destination, with 100 million videos viewed daily, and 65,000 new uploads per day.cite news |url = http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-07-16-youtube-views_x.htm? |title = YouTube serves up 100 million videos a day online |work = USA Today |publisher = Gannett Co. Inc. |date = 2006-07-16 |accessdate = 2006-07-28 |language = English ]
* 2006, July 5 - Host Amanda Congdon leaves Rocketboom over differences with her business partner Andrew Baron. [Popular News Anchor Leaves Video Blog Site [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/05/AR2006070501742.html washingtonpost.com] ] [Amanda UnBoomed [http://amandaunboomed.blogspot.com/2006/07/amanda-unboomed_05.html Amanda UnBoomed] ]
* 2006, November - The Vloggies, the first annual videoblogging awards, is held in San Francisco. [A Night at the Vloggies [http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=19588&hed=A+Night+at+the+Vloggies Red Herring] ]
* 2007, May and August - The "Wall Street Journal" places a [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117880450303898581-search.html?slide=5 grandmother] on the front page of its Personal Journal section. [cite news|url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117876177359697968.html?mod=googlewsj|title=Using YouTube for Posterity|author=Jessica E. Vascellaro|work=Wall Street Journal|page=D1|date=2007-05-10] In August she is featured on an "ABC World News Tonight" segment [cite web|url=http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3459908|title=The Elderly YouTube Generation |date=2007-08-08] showing the elderly now becoming involved in the online video world.

See also

* Blog
* Video podcast
* YouTube
* Photoblog
* Lifecasting

References