Media & Blogs: Videoblogs, bittorrent, and you

There has been a great shift since the DNC in the way people are blogging. It's called VideoBlogs or Vlogs.

Along with MP3 blogs, this is an emerging use of media in blogging. As Laurence Lessig mentions Richard Florida's book The Rise of the Creative Class, it seems that media is becoming yet another tool for social networking.

BlogDigger now has a media page with links to WMV, MP3, MOV, and Torrents.

DownHillBattle.org wants BitTorrent to be easier. There are also projects that work on the "convergence" of RSS and BT.

But the *real* culture is birthing right now with VideoBlogs. Jay at MomentShowing is covering this initiative to have more video produced by people like you and me to proliferate over the Internet. It is amazing the possibilities. Imagine in the very near future, if you will, the ability to sit down at your TV and quickly watch a montage of your friends' and relatives' day?

Ultimately, highly distributed and aggregated video promises even more... like *local* news that *local* again... Experts or on-location reporters providing you with their uncensored, and unfiltered reports. WebJay already allows one to stream all the mp3s found on a blog! Why can't we do this with video? Actually, you can, they did, and they are.

The guy from WebJay and may others are discussing these possibilities right now in the Yahoo! group videoblogging. (feed)

The call is out, however, to programmers and scripters alike: we need tools ... I program some, but to enable to masses to generate their own media and distribute it timely and with appropriate meta-data, we need blogging utilities and standards that will bring unity between Blogs, RSS, XML-RPC, and all of the other social networking technologies in use today...... Would Nielsen like trackback???

-> BattleTorrent @ downhillbattle.org
-> MomentShowing
-> Blogdigger: Media
-> WritTorrent
-> WebJay
-> Yahoo! group videoblogging