Vlogging

"Welcome to a new age of blogging: video blogging. I've created two video weblogs -- one about the new World Trade Center designs and one about my Christmas tree -- because (a) there's new software that makes it easy [more on that below] and (b) I'm becoming convinced that video is the next frontier for blogging." [BuzzMachine]

Harold Gilchrist has been tracking audioblogging for several months, but Jeff Jarvis has made himself the first (to my knowledge) videoblogger. It will be interesting to see how frequently he keeps up with video entries, considering how much more work is involved than in regular blogging. It makes perfect sense that Jeff would lead this charge given his background.

My only quibble is that my broadband connection was wasted reading the regular blog entry about Jeff's Christmas tree vlog. I would much rather have had it sent as an RSS enclosure so I could just click on it directly in my news aggregator. Full multimedia functionality in what has become my single greatest source of information - which commercial entity will be the first to figure out how to reach me this way?