By the end of 2004, bloggers
were using the ability to add video as an enclosure to an
RSS feed, allowing viewers to subscribe to videos and have
them delivered automatically to their computers. This solved
the problem of click and wait, where you had to wait for a
video to start playing when you clicked on it from a web
page.
podcasting (both video and
audio) is a bottom-up movement and squarely the domain of
individuals who are being guided by human creativity and
expression, rather than corporate agendas and economic
exigencies.
With the cost of video cameras in the hundreds,
sophisticated computers with video editing software
available for just over a grand, and high speed always-on
internet connections costing less than the average cable
television subscription, the means of both production and
distribution are now in the hands of practically anyone with
something to say
genuine conversation with their audience,
Marhshall McLuhan argued that in each socio-cultural era
the medium in which information is created and transmitted
determines the essential characteristics of that culture. He
also predicted the evolution of an interconnected "global village". The shift from a centralized media industry
modeled on industrial revolution structures to a
decentralized chaotic information-age soup is having a
profound effect on the messages we exchange and shaping the
characteristics of our culture. The global village comes to
a crescendo with podcasting, and you can participate in the
revolution with tools that are easily within reach: your
imagination, the computer you're using to read this web
page, and a video camera. We're not going to predicting
what's next, as that's going to depend on what you, yes you,
plan to do with new media. If the flutter of one butterfly wing, can
trigger a chain reaction of events resulting in a storm
half-way across the planet, imagine the effect millions, or
billions, of individually produced videos will have on the
characteristic of the global village and the media
landscape.
most new computers come with free video editing software
You don't even need a video camera to start
videoblogging, the mashup culture is in full force
A large group
of vloggers, over 2,000 at last count, actively participate
in the Yahoo! Videoblogging
Group from all over the world.

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Prime Time for Vlogs? - May 1, 2006

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The Believer - The Syncher, Not the Song

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Brolsma’s video singlehandedly justifies the existence of webcams. His squarish head and shoulders are in the center of the shot. He’s got a short haircut, glasses that are slightly too small for him and reflect his computer’s monitor, and cheap headphones; he’s sitting in a dismal-looking suburban room. And he is going for it: rolling his eyes back in his head, shaking his face, shooting his hands into the air with the beat, saluting along with the word salut, gesturing grandly, lip-synching the whole thing with his grand opera of a mouth, flirting with the camera, utterly given over to the music. It’s a movie of someone who is having the time of his life, wants to share his joy with everyone, and doesn’t care what anyone else thinks.
Type numa numa into Google Video’s search box, and you’ll get well over 400 hits; in YouTube’s, you’ll get over 1,500. Virtually all of the results are cut from a single template.
they start to look less like an infectious joke than like a new cultural order. These kids aren’t mocking the Numa Numa Guy; they’re venerating him. They are geeks honoring the King of the Geeks, and they’re beautiful to see, because they’re replicating and spreading his happiness. They’re following a ritual that’s meaningful if not yet venerable: learning the dance, lip-synching the song, documenting their performance just so, making it available for the world to see.