Yeah, I know how it feels. I mean, I usually average a couple of hundred hits for my blog, but whenever I put up a vlog entry, my traffic ends up plunging.
Sometimes, I think it has to do with the fact that Malaysia isn't really ready for vlogging. After all, in Malaysia, the popular blogs are the personal ones, and most have yet to really regard blogs as a media, and not just an online diary. Obviously, putting my effort into shooting and editing videos is much tiring than writing something up. But when a vlog entry is barely getting more than ten views, and not even getting a comment, while my written entries are the one most people are reading (and commenting), it's impossible for me NOT to focus more on writing than vlogging. (despite my lofty claim of being Malaysia's FIRST vlogger + Malaysia's most prolific vlogger + Malaysia's most beloved vlogger... I have a huge ego) So it's a price I have to pay, I guess, vlog entries can't be the only thing featured in my blog, I can use them to, ah, show off, or add some variety to it, but once again, I don't think Malaysia (and many other places) is that ready for vlogging. But then, one have to admit that the process of downloading a video and then sitting back to watch it (or waiting for it to stream) takes much longer than just reading some written stuff. Edmund http://swiftywriting.blogspot.com --- In [email protected], Randolfe Wicker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The most depressing thing in the world is to do a great vlog and get only a few viewers.("Surviving AIDS, Preserving Art" 12 views three days, four of which were probably me). http://www.blip.tv/file/12329 > > This can be overcome with cleverly worded "titles". I knew the mainly male world of vloggers wouldn't be interested in "Males au Naturel" so I titled my interview with them as "Nudists Only!". http://www.blip.tv/file/12223 > > That worked and I was number one at Blip.TV (my favorite) nearly all day long. At the end of the day, I had over a hundred views. Realities of life can be depressing. > > I had some footage of the first public rally/demonstration/march by transgendered people. I did four vlogs. The ones I titled in a tame and rational way: "Mother of Transie House: A Social Pioneer" http://www.blip.tv/file/12432 ; "Sylvia Rivera Law Project" http://www.blip.tv/file/12434 ; and "Transsexual and Rev. Mother" http://www.blip.tv/file/12491 ; did poorly. > > So, I decided to use "view bait" and titled another one "Transsexuals in Action" http://www.blip.tv/file/12486 . It consisted of two stirring speeches by transgendered activist at their rally last June. Nothing really sexual or "hot". > > The "vlog bait" worked it's magic and "Transsexuals in Action" was on the "most watched" list at Blip most of the day. > > Not everyone, including transgendered activists who appeared in this vlog, were happy with the title. They criticized it for being "lurid". > > I tried to explain that vloggers were like magazine publishers and newspaper editors competing in a world of thousands of vlogs and "fighting for every view". > > I've avoid YouTube because of their policy of censorship and also of their policy of "owning" your video after you post it there. > > I decided to "take the plunge" and put video on YouTube I'd probably never want to use in any commercial venture, just stuff with interesting social messages. > > I chose to use the luridly titled "Transsexuals in Action". I figured it would just be a test. > > Amazingly, I got more views in an hour on You Tube than I had gotten on Blip.TV in a day--even if I had sacrificed my rights to the footage. > > I even got a comment within minutes of posting that reflected the attitudes I suspected YouTube types to harbor: > First comment went as follows: > *********************************************************************** > Comments (1): > > > Related Video What a heek is this?!, Get off my land and my Country! you TALIBAN-LOVER-FREAK! > mulder2006 // Videos (269) | Favorites (0) | Friends (0) - (31 minutes ago) > (Reply to this) (Create new thread) > > > > > Please help keep this site FUN, CLEAN, and REAL. > Flag this video: Feature This! Inappropriate > > > > My response was as follows: > > > This country belongs to transgendered people just as much as it does to you. > American Indians had transgendered institutions called "Berache". Go back to the cave you crawled out of. > > > Randolfe (Randy) Wicker > > > ********************************************************************************** > So, it is apparent to me that to succeed in vlogging, one has to appeal to the lowest common denominator, even pretend to be a pornographer. > > To get viewers, one has to sacrifice their ownership of their vlogs by posting on video-pirate sites like YouTube. > > Just thought I would share this. I haven't posted here in some time since the moderator and other people jump on you for supposedly promoting yourself. > 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/
