Re: [videoblogging] video blog, the term of choice
Yeah. I agree. It's the term that people understand. You yell vlog or video podcast, people go Huh? What? You yell video blog, you got a panic on your hands on the fourth of July. However, David Howell was raising concerns the other day on Twitter about the connotations of the term. The general public knows the word, and they *think* they understand it... BUT they think solely in terms of Youtube, and the picture that comes into their mind when you say 'video blog' is that of a person droning into their webcam at great length about what they've done today. People aren't aware that video blogs and user-generated (sorry) online video comes in a million flavours. That's a barrier which stops intelligent and creative people being aware that there's challenging, varied and engaging new content online by independent vloggers, artists and filmmakers. At best, they know about the big name shows. And soon, they'll be spoonfed commercial 'channels' via things like Joost and Windows Media Center. As a community, we now need to put as much (if not more) effort into evangelising about the content as we have previously put into evangelising about the technology. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ On 1 Nov 2007, at 06:37, Mike Meiser wrote: I hadn't thought to check into this in a long while. video blog vs. vlog vs. video podcast Which terms is winning out? http://www.google.com/trends?q=video+podcast%2C+vlog%2C+video+blog%2C +videoblogctab=0geo=alldate=allsort=0 Alternate tiny url: http://tinyurl.com/3b6j4u It would appear that video blog is THE clear term of choice, which makes me quite happy. The masses have pretty much spoken at this point. I think it's safe to say the dust is starting to settle and can't forsee anything changing the picture anytime soon. In fact the only thing more popular then video blog is simply podcast, with an order of magnitude. http://www.google.com/trends?q=video+blog%2C+podcast On a side note it's interesting to note that while popularity the term podcast has obviously peaked the term videoblog continues to rise very steadily. Most interesting. I would think that podcast is the prefered term for audio specific media, but I could well be wrong, which brings me to my next point. **Google can't tell us what people thing these terms mean.** Do people think of podcasts as generally audio only? What percentage of these articles that are refering to podcasts are actually referring to video specific podcasts? When people here video blog what do they think? When people here video blog do they think simple youtube? or do they think like a blog but instead of text primarily video? Is blog itself yet a household term, or do people still think it means to throw up? And finally and most importantly... what is the state of RSS in all this? My guess is the vast majority will never know the term, RSS. Nor do they necissarily need to. They may understand two things: 1) subscribing, 2) syndication (if they make media). RSS is undisputeably and undeniably integral to this space. As 1) a subscription mechanism, 2) a serch mechanism, and 3) a syndication mechanism even though the vast majority of the public may not know it or even need to know it. What interests me though, is how far have we come in loosening media from the confines of the web page so it may flow freely beyond the boundries of the traditional web to set top boxes, portable devices, cell phones and such. How far have we really gotten in that big picture? What percentage of web originating video is viewed on a web page? What percentage is viewed on the web page it originated on, as opposed to through a syndication, reblog, or search site? Just some late night ramblings. -Mike mefeedia.com mmeiser.com/blog evilvlog.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] video blog, the term of choice
you are correct, a video blog sounds more like a genre of video podcasting. I still think that vidcasts was the best name. Verizon advertises Vcasts so heavy on the TV. that vidcasts would be understood rather easily. On 11/1/07, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah. I agree. It's the term that people understand. You yell vlog or video podcast, people go Huh? What? You yell video blog, you got a panic on your hands on the fourth of July. However, David Howell was raising concerns the other day on Twitter about the connotations of the term. The general public knows the word, and they *think* they understand it... BUT they think solely in terms of Youtube, and the picture that comes into their mind when you say 'video blog' is that of a person droning into their webcam at great length about what they've done today. People aren't aware that video blogs and user-generated (sorry) online video comes in a million flavours. That's a barrier which stops intelligent and creative people being aware that there's challenging, varied and engaging new content online by independent vloggers, artists and filmmakers. At best, they know about the big name shows. And soon, they'll be spoonfed commercial 'channels' via things like Joost and Windows Media Center. As a community, we now need to put as much (if not more) effort into evangelising about the content as we have previously put into evangelising about the technology. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ On 1 Nov 2007, at 06:37, Mike Meiser wrote: I hadn't thought to check into this in a long while. video blog vs. vlog vs. video podcast Which terms is winning out? http://www.google.com/trends?q=video+podcast%2C+vlog%2C+video+blog%2C +videoblogctab=0geo=alldate=allsort=0 Alternate tiny url: http://tinyurl.com/3b6j4u It would appear that video blog is THE clear term of choice, which makes me quite happy. The masses have pretty much spoken at this point. I think it's safe to say the dust is starting to settle and can't forsee anything changing the picture anytime soon. In fact the only thing more popular then video blog is simply podcast, with an order of magnitude. http://www.google.com/trends?qhttp://www.google.com/trends?q=video+blog%2C+podcast =video+blog%2C+podcasthttp://www.google.com/trends?q=video+blog%2C+podcast On a side note it's interesting to note that while popularity the term podcast has obviously peaked the term videoblog continues to rise very steadily. Most interesting. I would think that podcast is the prefered term for audio specific media, but I could well be wrong, which brings me to my next point. **Google can't tell us what people thing these terms mean.** Do people think of podcasts as generally audio only? What percentage of these articles that are refering to podcasts are actually referring to video specific podcasts? When people here video blog what do they think? When people here video blog do they think simple youtube? or do they think like a blog but instead of text primarily video? Is blog itself yet a household term, or do people still think it means to throw up? And finally and most importantly... what is the state of RSS in all this? My guess is the vast majority will never know the term, RSS. Nor do they necissarily need to. They may understand two things: 1) subscribing, 2) syndication (if they make media). RSS is undisputeably and undeniably integral to this space. As 1) a subscription mechanism, 2) a serch mechanism, and 3) a syndication mechanism even though the vast majority of the public may not know it or even need to know it. What interests me though, is how far have we come in loosening media from the confines of the web page so it may flow freely beyond the boundries of the traditional web to set top boxes, portable devices, cell phones and such. How far have we really gotten in that big picture? What percentage of web originating video is viewed on a web page? What percentage is viewed on the web page it originated on, as opposed to through a syndication, reblog, or search site? Just some late night ramblings. -Mike mefeedia.com mmeiser.com/blog evilvlog.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Gary Leland www.PodcastPickle.com www.PickleReviews.com www.PickleMobile.com www.PodcasterTree.com www.PodcastJunk.com www.PodcastInspector.com www.DillDomains.com www.MySalesAccount.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] video blog, the term of choice
Hi everyone: On 11/1/07, P. Dilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Verizon advertises Vcasts so heavy on the TV. that vidcasts would be understood rather easily. You mean like how Apple (Via iTunes) is capitalizing on the term podcast? Yeah, I'd have to agree. But then again, you'd still have some people who don't know what a vidcast is though. Which is why I prefer to use the term video podcast because it's pretty explainatory (Not to mention that almost ANYONE who's been online is familiar with the term podcast because it's been around like enough). Cheers :D -- Pat Cook Denver, Colorado PODCASTS - AS MY WORLD TURNS - Blogger Page - http://asmyworldturnstv.blogspot.com/ BlogTV Page - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/20453 PAT'S REAL DEAL VIDEO BLOG - http://patsrealdeal.livejournal.com/ PAT'S HEALTH MEDICAL WONDERS VIDEOCAST - http://patshealthmedicalwondersvideocast.blogspot.com/ YOUTUBE CHANNEL - http://www.youtube.com/amwowttv/ THE PAT COOK SHOW - http://www.livevideo.com/thepcshow THE PAT COOK SHOW (Video Podcast) - Blogger Page - http://thepctvshow.blogspot.com/ - BlogTV Page - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/19924
[videoblogging] video blog, the term of choice
I hadn't thought to check into this in a long while. video blog vs. vlog vs. video podcast Which terms is winning out? http://www.google.com/trends?q=video+podcast%2C+vlog%2C+video+blog%2C+videoblogctab=0geo=alldate=allsort=0 Alternate tiny url: http://tinyurl.com/3b6j4u It would appear that video blog is THE clear term of choice, which makes me quite happy. The masses have pretty much spoken at this point. I think it's safe to say the dust is starting to settle and can't forsee anything changing the picture anytime soon. In fact the only thing more popular then video blog is simply podcast, with an order of magnitude. http://www.google.com/trends?q=video+blog%2C+podcast On a side note it's interesting to note that while popularity the term podcast has obviously peaked the term videoblog continues to rise very steadily. Most interesting. I would think that podcast is the prefered term for audio specific media, but I could well be wrong, which brings me to my next point. **Google can't tell us what people thing these terms mean.** Do people think of podcasts as generally audio only? What percentage of these articles that are refering to podcasts are actually referring to video specific podcasts? When people here video blog what do they think? When people here video blog do they think simple youtube? or do they think like a blog but instead of text primarily video? Is blog itself yet a household term, or do people still think it means to throw up? And finally and most importantly... what is the state of RSS in all this? My guess is the vast majority will never know the term, RSS. Nor do they necissarily need to. They may understand two things: 1) subscribing, 2) syndication (if they make media). RSS is undisputeably and undeniably integral to this space. As 1) a subscription mechanism, 2) a serch mechanism, and 3) a syndication mechanism even though the vast majority of the public may not know it or even need to know it. What interests me though, is how far have we come in loosening media from the confines of the web page so it may flow freely beyond the boundries of the traditional web to set top boxes, portable devices, cell phones and such. How far have we really gotten in that big picture? What percentage of web originating video is viewed on a web page? What percentage is viewed on the web page it originated on, as opposed to through a syndication, reblog, or search site? Just some late night ramblings. -Mike mefeedia.com mmeiser.com/blog evilvlog.com
