Notes on Video Blogging

By nature a blog is
<sum> open source
<sum> collaborative
<sum> dialog
<sum> accumulative
<sum> contemporary

The `author as diarist' seems to be the proto-language of the
blog. Like the painterly photo, or the film as `photoplay', or the TV
as tiny proscenium theatre, blogging takes its first steps in the
shoes of a preceding technology. And it is a very appropriate
language to start with as blogging shares many common traits
with letter writing / diary keeping – it is periodic, its is a dialog
and unlike say, a phone conversation, it is author-centric(very
much 1st person in its content) and it is a cumulative form of
story telling.

Being a diarist in that way doesn't appeal to me, personally. I'm
more interested in the element of accumulation - a buildup of
content to give relevance to the form – that meaning establishes
itself over time.

Adding video to this form will allow the medium to truly come into
its own and begin establishing its unique language. So, what
can a video blog do or rather, what can I do with a video blog that
I cannot do with other mediums? It attracts me because of this
unique combination of traits in a visual medium. It is irrelevant to
me if its content is edited or `real' or `art'. What is most
interesting to me is that it provides a way to tell a story that could
eliminate worn-out narrative forms without relying on
`postmodern' or ironic or self-aware tricks, most of which are
rapidly becoming traps.

so anyways, I know that you are primarily concerned at present,
with the technical issues of making this happen, but I have no
doubt you will. I am chomping at the bit to enact some of my
ideas and thrilled to have a diverse group people experimenting
and analyzing in the same way. Yea!
hoping i can get some of my more technically adept friends to
joins us soon(and make up for my own ineptness in the area.)