A little historical context (not complete, I need to sleep sometime tonight)...
Adrian Miles has written much about videoblogging: http://vogmae.net.au/content/blogcategory/26/47/ http://incsub.org/blogtalk/?page_id=74 I didn't exactly agree - http://michaelverdi.com/index.php/2005/02/20/vlog-anarchy/ Adrian's response (reason #875 why Creative Commons kicks ass btw) - http://vogmae.net.au/vlog/?p=433 Eight months before Patrick started videoblogging Richard BF had already tried to shepherd a vlog entry on Wikipedia but was frustrated by constant fighting. Check out this post by him from June 2005 - http://www.kashum.com/blog/1118369215 and the video - http://tinyurl.com/2dd2dy This is what the article looked like before all the editing that he talks about happened - http://tinyurl.com/27kyht January 2006 the VlogTheory list started - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vlogtheory - pretty much died out after Vloggercon 2006 I did a couple of experiments (April 2006) on what a videoblog is and Richard wrote a bit also. http://michaelverdi.com/index.php/2006/04/06/experiment/ http://michaelverdi.com/index.php/2006/04/08/experiment-2/ Richard BF replies: http://www.kashum.com/blog/1144417173 and later writes a definition of videoblogging - http://www.kashum.com/blog/1156867771 (Check out all of the discussion on these posts - about 120 comments all told - for the most part these ideas didn't go over very well) It seems Patrick got interested in the Wikipedia entry shortly after Vloggercon 2006 and by July he had pretty much whacked down what was left of the already sparse article. So Meiser came along and put a lot of effort into the article. Here's one of his early attempts: http://tinyurl.com/ysrk6q Three weeks later all changes were gone - http://tinyurl.com/ywhq8o Recently Patrick has been pretty good about reverting people's changes within minutes. Check out his warnings to Meiser on his talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mmeiser As I said at the beginning, there is much missing from this email. I just put a little bit of this out there for those who would rush off to tackle the wikipedia entry. Please look at what's been done before. - Verdi
