I agree with Eric, use what works. Okay, I mentioned this a while back. I'm not a fan of the word blog. It's really not a pleasant sounding word. Believe it or not a lot of "civilians" I run into still have no clue what a "blog" is. So when you start throwing terms like "video blog" or "vlog" you might as well be speaking Chinese most of the time. I've given up trying to explain what I do in those terms. When I do their eyes glaze over. When I say "I put video on the internet" their eyes light up they get it. When I start talking about RSS delivery and enclosures, I loose them again. When I say, "it's a video podcast," most of them get it again. It may be incorrect, technically, to describe it as a "video podcast" but what the fuck? It's close enough and, more importantly, people get it.
Example: There is a guy who has a record label that I've done some consulting work for. I had a conversation with him about 9 months ago about podcasting and video blogging. He's not a moron, and he reads blogs and he's fairly technically literate. But I could tell that he didn't really get it, I could see that the more I tried to explain it the more I was loosing him... Skip ahead to about 3 weeks ago. I tell him he should open up his back catalog to podcasters so the bands he's signed can get some play somewhere. His eyes light up, he gets it now and he tells me about all the podcasts he's subscribed to via iTunes. I ask him if he's checked out my video blog lately. He said he did recently but missed some shit because he forgets to check it regularly. "Well," I say, "You know that it's actually like a video podcast you can subscribe to it via iTunes" He gets really excited "I didn't know they had VIDEO podcasts!!" "Yeah, of course" I tell him "there's no video ipod yet but you can get the stuff downloaded automatically to your computer, in the same way as a podcast, and iTunes plays video." And I explain to him that he can subscribe in one clickpretty damn easy. Now did I know that it was a slight mischaracterization to call it a "video podcast?" yeah, but was I going to let that stop the conversation? HELL NO! He was getting it! Obviously the new popularity of the term "Podcast" was the reason he finally "got it." Vlogging, Vlog, video blog, video podcast I'll use whatever works, whatever people understand. Right now that seems to be "podcast" for better or worse. Bill Streeter www.lofistl.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Eric Rice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > it sucks. sorry eric. it sucks. i dont like it for audio, i certainly dont > > like it for video. an iPod and any mobile device is only one- part of the big > > scheme of things anyways. > > i wont dare suggest a new word for audiocasts at this point > > I agree-- It is a lame term, and it splattered everywhere and stuck. *hard*. I guarantee that > the second the media gets hold of it, they'll do the easy and the natural, and the learning > curve is chopped to shit, because half of the phrase is known. > > More than likely I think we'll see that the terms get used interchangeably. I'm compltely > arbitrary when I use video podcast vs videoblog. If I'm talking to consumers, I use VP. If I'm > talkin to youse guys, it's vb (or if I'm lazy, it's vlog.) > > At least that's how my head works. Heh. > > ER ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/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/
