FYI In the comments on a short TechCrunch review (http://tinyurl.com/2bcqx5) about VLIP i read the following provocative statements:
'Erick' writes: "Unless a person is at least the slightest bit entertaining, Vlogging stinks. I dont want to look at some weirdo sitting at home/work talking into a webcam about their lame day or skill or opinion. If you arent as entertaining as Ze Frank, then you stink and nobody wants to hear/see you..." and David Scott Lexis writes: "Video blogs have been a failure, as I noted in a couple of AlwaysOn Network columns. Videos are one thing; automatically downloading video blogs (or video podcasts; I prefer "video podcasts") is too bandwidth intensive, too slow, takes up too much hard disk space. You want to leave your computer on all night to download video podcasts? Well, good for you but you're in the minority. How many video podcasts have been successful? Do any have over 10,000 subscribers to their feed? Compare and contrast with "standard" blogs such as this one. Matter of fact, are there any video podcasts that have even 1% of the subscribers that TechCrunch has? None that I'm aware of, and in my public blogroll I subscribe to a lot (http://www.bloglines.com/ public/DSL). Mind you, this might be a decent idea, but until bandwidth, hard disk space and all sorts of other limitations are overcome (like the need for better and easier production techniques), it will remain a novelty for the SXSW crowd (and they're not early adopters, they're "way-too-early adopters"; in the 70's they would have been touting the wonders of AI). BTW, I still subscribe to several video podcasts for my iPod. But I suspect that I'm in the minority; I know very few people outside of the Bay area who subscribe to more than a few (if any) and I don't know anyone in China (where I currently live) who subscribes to any not even one. YouTube, thumbs up; video blogs & video podcasts, thumbs down (too early). Remember, so-called and self-anointed pioneers usually wind up with arrows in their back. Besides, how many people really have good "TV"/video presence? Not a lot. Good podcasters are a subset of good bloggers, but good vloggers are a subset of good podcasters: That's a tiny set..."
