Video blogs are blogs that include video content. They share similarities with text blogs in that they are informal, personal, and grounded in the everyday life of the blogger. Some early video blogs emerged in 2000-2001, with 2004 being declared the "year of the videoblog." Today, video blogging has become very common, with over 2000 people subscribed to related email lists. Video blogs are distributed online through web browsers and RSS feeds, and can then be viewed on devices like iPods or televisions. They tell minor stories that accumulate meaning over time as more episodes are added.

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adrian miles
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2. rmit university | mcd studio
adrian miles
amsterdam | 2006
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what is a video blog?
• a video blog is a blog that includes video
• the video has similar qualities to text in a
blog
• informal, quotidian, personal, mixed voices,
grounded in the life world of the blogger, indexical
• which makes it much like documentary
• they are social

3. rmit university | mcd studio
adrian miles
amsterdam | 2006
idfa
some history
• some early video blogs appeared in late
2000 and early 2001
• 2004 was declared ‘year of the videoblog’
• an email list established, with original
membership of 8
• currently 2000+ and video blogging is
now common

4. rmit university | mcd studio
adrian miles
amsterdam | 2006
idfa
practice
• create a blog
• shoot, capture, edit and post video
• then join the argument about
• file format, data rate, size, frame rate, length

5. rmit university | mcd studio
adrian miles
amsterdam | 2006
idfa
distribution
• video blogs are viewed via:
• web browsers
• RSS aggregators
• RSS aggregators and then an iPod, television, iTunes,
etc

6. rmit university | mcd studio
adrian miles
amsterdam | 2006
idfa
what works and what we know
• as it is a video blog video consists of
minor (small) stories
• meaning and depth accrues through time
as it is a serial/episodic form
• all content must be porous to the network