| Tuesday, November 1, 2005 |
11:05 - The revolution will be tel—er, bl—uh, vl... oh, never mind
http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2005/10/31/dugg/
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Steven Den Beste sends this link, with the observation that "Apparently the hip term is vlog":
"While we’re digging, here’s one more relevant tidbit: The Diggnation guys said that as soon as iTunes started promoting vlogs, the video version of Diggnation immediately racked up more downloads than the audio version."
Very interesting. Although it strikes me that this could have unforeseen consequences in the dynamics of blog evolution. Regardless of how easy the technology makes it to create multimedia bits on the disk, video is way harder to do well than audio, and audio is way harder to do well than text.
But the demand is there. So this may be a built-in oligopolizing influence on those blogs that can also podcast and vlog well enough to get fans.
But it also strikes me that if the linked and quoted story is at all representative, this could be a huge shot in the arm for QuickTime. WMV videos won't play in iTunes, after all...
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Brian Tiemann
