Everything about Blogs and Blogging

Defining videoblogging is like defining a library. Videoblogging or vlog is a new form of expression centering around posting videos to a website and encouraging an audience response. Based on the popularity of blogs and podcasts, and growing access to video tools, videoblogging is likely to increase in popularity among faculty and students. Videoblogging is getting lots of attention in the press and a cool new way to pubish, distribute, and archive your videos. Videoblogging could arguably be easier, and take less time, than blogging, especially since you don't need to worry about the construction of a sentence and the words you are choosing. It is a step forward that videoblogging is getting this sort of critical and creative attention.

Videoblogging is just like talking, whereas blogging is like writing, easy for some people and cumbersome for others. It is also a great tool for creating awareness and bringing about change as well as a powerful medium of communication as it counter to main stream media and news feeds. Videoblogging uses the same elements as blogging - frequent posts and accessibility over the Internet and serving as an alternate media source. I think videoblogging is still in its primary phase, which focuses mostly on the technology and not producing good content. The ecology of videoblogging is a complex one, and there are many, interlocked reasons why videoblogging hasn’t taken off in a big way yet. Still videoblogging is like one way of allowing anyone to put their message out there.

Videoblogging is no doubt, the next generation of posting ideas and products over the internet and the platform of videoblogging is simply a new and evolving vehicle to deliver a brand through. One of the fun things about videoblogging is that for me it's a never-ending learning process, not just about technical things like tagging and codecs and compression, but real-life stuff, too. A videoblog allows you to share whatever you choose in a colorful, interesting way that gets attention and furthermore, it is fun. These days videoblogging is suddenly big, thanks to services like YouTube taking most of the hosting complications out of the picture.

Vlogs are quickly becoming a powerful and reaching media. New technologies make images and video easy to produce, so anyone with a digital camera or camera-equipped cell phone and Internet access can create a vlog. Unlike mainstream media, vlogs have no restrictions on content and the author remains in control of the media. Another positive aspect of vlogging is the community that surrounds it. Other vloggers take the time to view entries and make comments in order to start a discussion. While I discovered how reaching vlogging is, I also realized the low percentage of women vloggers.

How to start video blogging ...

Theories aside, I'm sure everybody wants to be part of the fun, hence the practical part - How do I get myself a video and start video blogging or vloging. I did my homework myself, and concluded that there's only one place that you should be if you want to learn on how to do this. By far, this is the most sought out place for you to start with an excellent thorough tutorial.

	FreeVlog.org's Tutorial - Click here to go there

It covers from the introduction, the reason why you should videoblog and of course the step by step tutorial on how you should attack your conquest of videoblogging. It's thorough enough to cover both PC and MAC, so don't worry. So why wait, go there now!

• 2000, November - Adrian Miles posts the first (known) video blog entry on November 27, 2000.
• 2004, January 1 - Steve Garfield launches his videoblog and declares that 2004 would be the year of the video blog.
• 2004, June 1 - Jay Dedman starts the Yahoo! Videoblogging Group, which becomes the center of a community of vloggers
• 2004, December - mefeedia, the first videoblog directory and aggregator is released.
• 2005, January - Vloggercon, the first videoblogger conference, is held in New York City.
• 2005, February - FreeVlog, a guide to creating a video blog, launches.
• 2005, May - Steve Jobs announces audio and video podcast support in iTunes.
• 2005, June - VlogMap launches and begins mapping both vloggers and videos.
• 2005, July 20 - The Yahoo! Videoblogging Group grows to over 1,000 members.
• 2006, June - Vloggercon 2006, the second annual videoblogger conference, is held in San Francisco.
• 2006, July - Youtube has become the 5th most popular web destination, with 100 million videos viewed daily, and 65,000 new uploads per day.
• 2006, July 5 - Host, Amanda Congdon, leaves Rocketboom over differences with her business partner Andrew Baron.
• 2006, November - The Vloggies, the first annual videoblogging awards, is held in San Francisco.
• 2006, November - Google purchases YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock, its biggest acquisition to date.

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