What is Vlogging?
Vlogging, shortcut for "video blogging" is blogging through video. The blog is regularly updated with discrete items, a frequently supplied viewer who has subscribed to the blog and reads it using a third party interface or RSS interface to visit the site directly. The RSS aggregator allows readers to consolidate multiple blog channels per personalized website.
The blog that primarily uses a video to distribute your insight or message is called a vlog. There are not many Vlogs at present, but many trendy observers say it is only a matter of time until the rich personal medium of the video starts to replace static text and pictures. Extensive adoption of broadband technology and decreasing band width costs is another factor that will allow extended video distribution.
RSS Enclosures allow blogger to insert a blog media mediaSet and let it distribute to the aggregators of those who have signed up for the blog. Most often it is used to distribute images along with text, but can also be used to distribute video along with text and images. With the release of the iPod video in 2005, the mobile medium for video opens up to the Vlog era. The viewer who follows the stream of Vlogs could be compared with a television viewer, but the creation of content is highly distributed rather than centralized and the viewer would have access to thousands or even millions of channels rather than just a few tens or a hundred.
The first known video blog item was 27 November 2000. Although at the beginning of 2000, attempts to create video blogs were marked, Vlogging really did not appear until 2004, when small Vlogger communities appeared and large media began to notice, with New York Times and other publications. Vlogging is still SMALL today but online video starts to take off with a website like JSOU Google Video and YouTube offering free storage space.
One of the key problems with vlogging is that there is no unified standard for metadata, ie marking videos on data that shows what they are about. The search engine technology is not advanced enough for a "spider" search engine to watch the blog, tell what it is, and index it accordingly. Before the vlogging becomes a mainstream, maybe something will need to happen in these lines. Marking is one of the options, but requires special effort.