--- "B. A. Kozlek" <brad@k...> wrote:
> I think rocketboom probably strattles the divide between these two
> forms. [...] http://systm.org/ is a good example of a vidcast, content
> wise. although is it really a "cast" without any kind of rss-like
mechanism?

Ah, yet another happy wrinkle to pick at. Or, perhaps, another
dimension to help us understand...

There is the assertion that videoblogging is many-to-many, active and
non-linear. That is, it's more than the video, it's the interaction,
the community, the comments and responses. It's individual voices,
personal views, mixing. Okay. Again, the "blog" model, the
"blogosphere" concept.

But what of Akimbo, and PSPcasting, and the like? What of the
subscriptions and feeds and automated downloading and mobile devices?
Is a video entry still a "videoblog" if it's aggregated, downloaded,
taken out into the world, separated from the web? If it's consumed
_like_ a show, an episode, a podcast? Where it's essentially one way,
unless the viewer/subscriber comes back to his computer or launches
his IM or e-mail client on his superduper multimedia device to comment?

Perhaps it is, if the video is Bob's trip to the Farmer's Market or
Lisa's bedside confession. But I admit, something would just feel
different if I was sitting on the crosstown bus with my PSP watching
The Whatever Show with Jane Doe. Would I tell the curious person next
to me that I'm watching a videoblog? Any kind of blog? Or an
internet video show. A vidcast -- with the implications that come
with the "cast" suffix.

And for the record, I love all of videoblogging/vidcasting/whatever,
the daily anchored news reviews and the "new jeans" dances. We are
family, yada yada yada. But definitions are helpful at the very least
for the uninitiated. I keep thinking my mom, at least, would see a
significant difference between Rocketboom and a bloody toilet. <g>

Ryan