My first video posting on my website was in Feb, 2004 - way behind all the others that posted on blogs. I didn't have any idea of how to actually do a blog, but I really wanted to show folks what I was doing in video, and also needed a place to express myself artistically - since I had been doing documentary work for a very long time - but mostly commissions. I hadn't really explored the world of artistic expression in a free and flexible way - the way you could do it on your own website.
At that time, I thought that posting things - like video - on your website meant that you had a vlog. I guess I still think that's true. It's really only recently that I discovered that even though I thought I had a blog/vlog - most other folks didn't really see it that way. This is really just an exploration of what the meaning of blog/vlog is. Now when I post things on my page (http://hollowbonefilms.com) there's the regular blog form, and people do leave comments. It seems to me that the form is finally coming into it's own - with the "soon to be released" SIAB. I believe that with the release of Show In A Box, Vlogging will move into the 3rd stage of development. The first stage is always the Primitive, followed by the Avant Garde - and now we are entering the third and most amazing stage - the Classical. Of course, eventually this will be followed by the fourth stage - the Formal, in which vlogs will look like network television. With the progression of bandwidth, software to post and respond to videos, the possibilities for the next few years are pretty amazing. Milt
