VLOGCASTING ZOOMS ON

The hive is alive

It's happening.

What blogging does for print journalism, podcasting does for radio and videoblogging does for TV. It's rough around the edges, it's unpredictable, it's real. And it's putting the means of media production into the hands of the peoples.

But the problem is always: How do I find the good stuff? Heck, how do I find any stuff?

Daniel Terdiman1 writes in Wired News that video feeds are following in podcasting's footsteps. He talks to future Blogumentary DVD owners Jay Dedman and Kenyatta Cheese (real name!) who developed a "Vogbrowser" prototype to make video feeds, much like blogs have RSS feeds.

Don't look now, but Peter Van Dijck has already created a new-improved Vogbrowser2 that lets you subscribe to your favorite vloggers, watch their videos AND read related blog entry text, all without leaving the Vogbrowser interface. With services like Feedster and Blogdigger offering media enclosures, we're rapidly approaching something like TiVo for internet video.

Of course, according to JD Lasica's interview with Tivo chief Mike Ramsay, TiVo itself is jumping into this game. I'm not worried about that. Projects like ourmedia, the videoblogging group, and my own top secret video schemes will grow this space into something as deep and wild and anything we can imagine.

And that, my friends, is just the beginning of the bottom-up media revolution.

1 Daniel Terdiman has one of the very few Blogumentary DVDs in the universe. I of course dream of being featured in a future Wired News article. What didja think, Daniel?

2 I've always despised the word "vog" and so I don't like "Vogbrowser." After all, we call them blogs not bogs. Can we all rally around the terms "videoblogging" and "vlogs"? Pretty please? Mmm, VlogBrowser.