I think it's important to separate actual technology from content and interaction.
Blogs, podcasts, and videoblogs triumph on the technology of subscription delivery: RSS et al. Audio and video (and any other media file for that matter) can be automatically downloaded via this technology. Completely agnostic to content, file is file is file. Blogs can be a communication 'platform'... for both audio and video and pdfs and jpgs... (I can start podcasting JPGs to be a smart ass, and you can certainly tell me I'm a smart ass in my blog comments, like you can with audio or video. What we're faced with is -blogging as a suffix and -casting as a suffix. The term -casting is technical; -blogging is social. Part of me wonders if we're all making Microsoft's point by walking so dangerously close to their desired term of 'blogcasting'.... "Casting" wasn't in my daily vocabulary when I birthed the domain Audioblog.com in 2001. In a way, that sucks, because the word "Audioblog" sounds real out of place right now. In theory, I don't' even like any of the terms-- I focus on the notion of show and brand. Something I produce will still be an Eric Rice Production no matter if it's a videoblog video podcast audioblog audio podcast broadcast narrowcast mobilecast xmradiocast blogged printed purchased dvd'd. Seriously, I'll go with the populist view. If I have to spend three times as long explaining a harder term when I could be taking the populist angle and getting three times the number of people to 'getting it', okay, I'll take that. If Apple wants to bust out with a term like video podcast, then thank you Cupertino for doing our marketing for the go-make-media revolution. Steal the term and use it like it's ours. It's inside our little echo chamber of tech early adopterism when nomenclature becomes religious. We think of *ourselves* and not the people watching or listening. Question: What do you tell someone who Does Not Want to subscribe to RSS and participate in the comments, but certainly wants to watch you make stuff? Would you correct a viewer if they use the wrong term? Are they unwelcome? Would you refuse their attention? Or money? Which battle are we fighting anyway? --- In [email protected], andrew michael baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 15, 2005, at 8:37 PM, Eric Rice wrote: > > > Heh, I lost this battle at Audioblog... > > > # Video podcasting is different than videoblogging. Podcasting does > not have the blog part. Some podcasters attempt to work this avenue, > but podcasting as a medium generally ignores metadata, hyperlinks, > and general blog mentality. Podcasters will try and argue this. Yet > look no further than iTunes which has zero blog-like features. Also, > people who call themselves or identify with "video podcaster", > obviously come out of a certain angle that is specific to the home > radio mentality, a product specific term which defines a limited time > period (i.e. ipodcasting, etc, will eventually become nostalgic and > exclusive). > > # The word videoblog will always prevail when referring to one type > of video over IP. It has certain characteristics which make it what > it is. As long as there is blog, there will be a videoblog too. A > short LCD (lowest common denominator) video show over IP on a major > network like NBC, for instance, will not be called a videoblog, but > called something else (it wont be called video podcasting either) and > if they decide to create a behind the scenes look of the show, > perhaps THAT will be a videoblog. > > # IPTV seems to be gaining as a genus term for all of the different > species. > > > > > > Terminology isn't important. Action is. > > > > Terminology is VERY important too. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
