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Videoblogging)
Vlog, V-log, videoblogging, or more recently vog means to blog using video. There is a small but growing number of vloggers, video bloggers, v-loggers or voggers who are turning the Internet into a medium in which people are communicating audiovisually with personal video posts, networking through the audiovisual, and creating programming and content not controlled by major broadcasting networks and cable outlets.
A vlog is technically a video blog, in that blog entries are recorded as video of up to around 5 minutes in length, although they may be longer. This is different to video in a blog, which may be any video content which is attached to a more traditional blog entry. There is currently debate within the vogging community as to which of these definitions is correct, and several manifestos, some delivered as video, have tried to address this question.
While vlogs have existed for many years, it was the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Disaster which highlighted video on blogs, when dozens of amateur videos of the devastaton were posted by bloggers around the world. Immediately after the disaster, vlogs were subsequently noticed and deemed worthwhile by mainstream media looking for video footage to fill their broadcasts.
A steadily increasing group of independent and alternative vlog creators, have created an extensive alternative to what some videobloggers would say is a wasteland of mainstream media news and entertainment. RSS feeds with enclosures are used to bypass the traditional distribution systems of this mainstream media, delivering video content to various news aggregators and websites. These practices are once again revolutionizing online communication.
Video can also be uploaded to a moblog, however these tend to be shorter unedited clips, usually from a video capable camera phone. Moblogs with video, while not typically recognised as such, are also technically videoblogs.
Examples
See also
- Steve Mann who is arguably the first video blogger who calls them glogs (cyborg logs).
- SMIL is a multimedia playlist format used both offline and on the web.
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