Vlog

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The definition of Vlog, videoblog, or vog, is still under heavy debate, however the more common understanding is that a vlog is a blog which uses video as its primary presentation format.

Vlog posts are typically up to around 5 minutes in length, although they may be longer. They may also include text, which can extend the video's narrative, describe how it was made, or provide a transcript of the audio track. Hyperlinks can also be included to reference other resources referred to or associated with the video.

Vlogs or videoblogs are created by vloggers or videobloggers, while the act itself is referred to as vlogging or videoblogging. The video content is generally considered to be created by the vlogger, and not simply republished 3rd party content.

There has been a lot of discussion about the definition of vlog, and being a new medium, no agreement has yet been made as to its exact meaning. The purest view is that of a blog delivered as video, in that each blog post is a video, devoid of textual content. A common example is Ryanne's Ryanne's Video Blog. At the other extreme, are regular blogs which intermittently include video. It is still unclear where the line between blogger and vlogger is drawn, or the percentage split of text vs. video that makes a blog a vlog.

Several manifestos, most delivered as video, have tried to address the question of definition. The most common being Michael Verdi's Vlog Anarchy, where he states that by defining what a vlog is, we're taking away the innovation of and equity access to the medium.

An alternate view is presented by Adrian Miles, in his paper Media Rich versus Rich Media, where he states that with blogs being highly granular, a vlog or videoblog by definition must also be highly granular. Thus the linear 'closed' video works which are commonly recognised as vlog posts, by having low granularity, are simply video in a blog and not technically videoblogging. Miles gives several examples in his paper, of where vlogging and interactive media may be headed in this respect.

There is a small but growing number of vloggers, who are turning the Internet into a medium in which people are communicating audiovisually with personal video posts, networking through the audiovisual, and creating programming and content not controlled by major broadcasting networks and cable outlets.

While vlogs have existed for many years, it was the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Disaster which highlighted video on blogs, when dozens of amateur videos of the devastaton were posted by bloggers around the world. Immediately after the disaster, vlogs were subsequently noticed and deemed worthwhile by mainstream media looking for video footage to fill their broadcasts.

A steadily increasing group of independent and alternative vloggers, have created an extensive alternative to what some vloggers would call a wasteland of mainstream media news and entertainment. RSS feeds with enclosures are used to bypass the traditional distribution systems of this mainstream media, delivering video content to various aggregation clients and web sites. These practices are once again revolutionizing online communication.

Video can also be uploaded to a moblog, however these tend to be shorter unedited clips, usually from a video capable camera phone. Moblogs with video, while not typically recognised as such, are also technically vlogs.

See also

  • Steve Mann who is arguably the first video blogger who calls them glogs (cyborg logs).
  • SMIL is a multimedia playlist format used both offline and on the web.

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