Bill Streeter wrote: > 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.
I started "blogging" in 1997, before the term was really applied to what we were doing at the time. I didn't like the word, and still kind of don't like it, but there's not much I can do about it. Same with podcasting, I started doing that before the term was applied to it. I don't know what's going to "win the name war" of what we are doing now: videoblogging, vlogging, vodcasting, but chances are I'll reluctantly accept what everyone else calls it, and what is it ultimately known as... I figure it's the price you pay for helping define a technology rather than just "create a product/market" at some company. Pete -- http://tinkernet.org/ videoblog for the future... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/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/
