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Wed, 15 Nov 2006
A roundup of said Space, which may or may not be yours, depending on who you are.
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Wed, 19 Apr 2006Note: If you upload Porn, your MySpace.com account will be deleted.
Dang!
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Tue, 18 Apr 2006After making a short film for the Howard Stern Film Festival (I'll release it once I hear whether or not I'm a finalist), I decided to check out what people are doing with online video shorts, starting with Video Blogs.
This playlist has a bunch of stuff so I figured I'd start there.
After watching just a little bit of the playlist, I have a question: what are these vlogs, or whatever they're called? Personal accounts of various stuff? Creative and/or experimental films? There may not be any real parameters, but unlike the numerous text-based blogs that keep being created (69 new blogs per minute according to this post, and that was in 2005), making a video blog requires some moderate skill, or at least a willingness to do more work than just typing away (sometimes incoherently). Maybe one day everyone will have a camera in their home and we can all watch whenever we want to (Rudy Rucker wrote about that way back in the 1980's).
The idea of a blog that offers original videos by the creator, on a regular schedule (once a week/month/day, whatever works) is intriguing to me. The idea of personal entries is about as appealing to me as homepages that feature pictures of your cat.
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Wed, 05 Oct 2005Major League Baseball has MLBlogs.
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Sun, 31 Jul 2005Jessica Coen, editor of Gawker, proves herself fairly amusing on her own site:
Not sure if I'm right, but I would bet that Page Six never got an apology note and flowers from someone that they pissed off.
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Sun, 15 May 2005Forum4Bloggers.com is where Bloggers meet to talk about blogging. Blog? Blog blog blog. Blog blog BLOG! Blog blog? Blog...
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Tue, 01 Mar 2005
Tard-Blog
This is a weblog written by a real life special education teacher. No, really. Found it here.
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Tue, 11 Jan 2005I have to admit that I don't 100% get videoblogging yet. Plain ol' blogging I get, and actually got earlier than this blog would suggest; I was digging around the various web sites I've played around with over the past couple of years and saw that I had put up a couple of experimental blogs back in 2000 or 2001. Not that it makes me an early adopter, just wanted to mention it. Anyway, blogging has several uses and has entered the fabric of the life online in a pretty smooth fashion. VideoBlogging, however, is less clear. There seems to be a slight evangelistic quality to some of the VBs (VideoBloggers, I think I just made that up), as if they were forging a new path, but a new path for what? That's where I'm confused. Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking the people who do it. I just don't get it yet. Clearly, it's more difficult to to a VB than it is a plain ol' blog. There are hosting and bandwidth issues. You have to shoot the video, edit the video, and post the video. You also have to make a video OF something. I've seen some VBs that are people talking to the camera and most of that (and this is based on a very limited sampling) is a little weird. People who appear on camera on a regular basis are usually better at it than people who don't. That's not to say that there are no good TV/Video personalities who aren't pros, but five minutes of a person looking not quite at the camera, shifting their eyes around and rambling about their day can be verrry dull. Adam Curry's audio blogs (the ones I've heard) are don't-you-have-any-glass-I-can-chew awful. There's one where he talks about his dog and his clock radio or some such nonsense. And this guy was a broadcaster (proof that being a 'professional' doesn't make you interesting). I suppose there is something nifty about it in a sci-fi kind of way: short videos of people all over the 'net, linked together somehow (that's a big theme that I've seen popping up lately, how to get these pages linked without manual hyperlinking, most of it using RSS in ways that I don't pretend to comprehend). For more on this, try the VideoBlogging Timeline, plus they have tons of other links to VideoBlogging tools and the VidBlogs themselves.
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Thu, 16 Dec 2004
Sports Blog Found!
FootballOutsiders.com is a blog, although it doesn't look like one, which isn't a total surprise. For example, the RSS link is there but isn't easy to find. Are sports fan not interested in reading a page that looks too geeky? Are RSS aggregators like Kinja the way of the future? Is a blog a big turnoff when it looks crappy?
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Tue, 14 Dec 2004Lucas is talking about paid blogging; he is also being paid to blog about Marqui (I am not being paid to blog about them, and yet, there's the company name). The idea of paid blogging should be absolutely idiotic, but it's not. Here's why: advertising costs a fortune. If you can get someone with a readership, almost any readership, to write about your company/product for the pittance that this sort of thing is currently going for (under a grand a month, I believe, in Marqui's case) that's a bargain. More and more big-name advertisers are popping up on Webjay via BlogAds for the same reason - very cost-effective marketing. Webjay has had ads for Eminem, the new Wes Anderson movie, and today has an ad for the new Ludacris album. Those same ads on a larger commercial site would cost a pile of cash; on Webjay they cost 50 bucks a month. Plus you can at least get a sense of whether or not the ad was worthwhile because you can track click-throughs. If a company can get bang for their buck by advertising on a few smaller sites for such inexpensive rates, why won't they keep doing it? It's the same with paying bloggers. Blogging is, by it's very nature, somewhat disjointed, in that there are a variety of topics that sometimes follow a theme but sometimes they don't. As long as there is full disclosure, it's unlikely to hurt the company's public profile. Their Googlejuice will increase mightily, if for no other reason than because there are more pages out there mentioning their name and linking back to the site. The other version of this is the old 'viral marketing’; in this case it would involve creating websites that somehow point back to the site in question (ILoveMarqui.com, MarquiSavedMyAss.com or something like that). Some, like SubservientChicken.com don't necessarily sell any product, but they definitely get attention. They are, however, expensive and time consuming. Paying a few bloggers a few hundred bucks a month to guarantee some posts? Great idea.
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Wed, 01 Dec 2004
Aspiring Filmmaker's Blog
Oh good, another outlet for aspiring filmmakers to talk about themselves. Thanks goodness. I was getting worried.
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Megnut's Two Rules For Blogging
Meg, who in a very real way started it all, offers two rules for blogging.
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Someone has actually managed to make blogging less cool. I wasn't certain this was possible.
first things first, Ms. Hopper: ha ha, you're funny
amusing - but your emo ego is due for bruising tonight
cuz we're never losing a fight
we keep it tight, featured site up at movable type
Rap about Movable Type? Okay, sure, we're a little tired of the neo-gangsta stuff and the 'my rhymes are better than your rhymes' and whatever. But COME ON! I fill suckaz all over the blogosphere with dread????
The site does have a very cool audio page, although the tracks are in Real format which is less cool. So it's not the site I blame. But people, please - no more rapping about blogging. Please.
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