Vlogs (Video Blogs) - How I stumbled upon them.

This is a blurb on my blog that I wrote before I began a vlog. It seemed appropriate here.

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+ Blog = Vlog

Hello fellow bloggers,

I had a little trouble with my blogger account, but that's all cleared up and I'm back.

In the interim, I prowled around in your blogs, and found some rather interesting ones, including what is known as video blogs* -- blogs that also contain videos that the blog author has created.


FINDING NEW THINGS

While searching for blogspot bloggers who like one of my favorite films Thoroughly Modern Millie, guess whose name popped up.

You guessed it -- "Thoroughly Modern" Millie Garfield, who, at 80, is the oldest known blogger in the world.

Mrs. Garfield has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one reason why I still occasionally read her blog.


She is also a vlogger (video blogger) with her son Steve.


Steve Garfield is, apparently, one of the people at the forefront of making vlogging accessible to everyone, making it easier to vlog.

I blew away a few hours of my weekend watching The Carol and Steve Show, Steve Garfield's vlog show with his wife, featuring the little moments of their lives.



He edits succinctly which keeps things from becoming too mundane.


MY EXPERIENCE WITH VLOGGING

I have none, but watching other people vlog lead me to believe that I could do it as well.

I have always loved fooling around with cameras, and now that I have a digital camera I might put together a little something for this blog.

One problem is that vloggers seem to get very little sleep. Apparently they are often into the wee hours of the morning in postproduction, buffing up the film they took.

Many of them want to make a quality product (I don't blame them) so they take chunks of their sleep time to finish their projects.

That's fine now and then, but not every week.

Were I to vlog, it might not be with regularity, or if regular, perhaps once per month.


PRESSURE ON VLOGGERS

I've noticed that there is huge pressure to post with regularity in the vlogging community b/c many people have replaced their television time with internet vlogger shows.

Of course, the vlogging audience expects that vlogging individuals -- who have to take out the garbage, go to school, go to work, teach the kids, walk the dog , pay bills, etc. ---- will also make the time to entertain other people for free with the same regularity as those who make TV shows for a living.


Ha Ha! I find that expectation a bit ludicrous. Still, it exists.



WILL VLOGGING REPLACE TV?

Perhaps not, but it might give TV a run for it's money eventually.

Sort of like when TV began to take the movie-going audience in the 1950s. Movie theaters are still around, but not as big a player as they once were.

Perhaps TV is on its way to becoming obsolete, or maybe on it's way to some altered form.



We shall see.




* For more on what is video blogging, and/or to start a vlog of your own, see Freevlog.

A great vlog site to start reading is Annie's site.