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• 31 May 08
  

  Mike Wesch

  vlogging history youtube prehistory medium

  • blogging shares many common traits
     with letter writing / diary keeping – it is periodic, its is a dialog
     and unlike say, a phone conversation, it is author-centric(very
     much 1st person in its content) and it is a cumulative form of
     story telling.
  • So, what
     can a video blog do or rather, what can I do with a video blog that
     I cannot do with other mediums? It attracts me because of this
     unique combination of traits in a visual medium. It is irrelevant to
     me if its content is edited or `real' or `art'. What is most
     interesting to me is that it provides a way to tell a story that could
     eliminate worn-out narrative forms without relying on
     `postmodern' or ironic or self-aware tricks, most of which are
     rapidly becoming traps.

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