Author:Leroy Brown
Everywhere you look, more and more people are jumping aboard the video blogging bandwagon. Matt Cutts, Google’s own SEO expert, has done quite a few video blog posts lately. Just this morning, I read a post at Problogger about blogging tutorials - in
video format, called Tubetorial.
Some are saying that video blogging is the
future of blogging, and that one day that will be the only way to read blogs.
I think that video blogging is more of a fad, or perhaps a niche market. Some
people do enjoy the personalization that video blogging offers - so I’m fairly
certain that video blogging is here to stay. However, I’m not convinced that
there’s a big market for these types of blogs. You are probably wondering why I
say this. Why would a person rather read paragraphs rather than watch an
entertaining video? Don’t more people watch the news rather than read the
newspaper?
Video blogging, by it’s very nature, isn’t a very friendly format. For example -
I cannot watch video blog posts from my Treo smartphone - that’s a real problem.
Often that’s how I access my RSS reader, or individual blogs. You Tube and
Google Videos don’t yet work on many mobile devices, and certainly not
efficiently. I also cannot view video blog posts at work. Let’s face it - many
people spend some of their work day doing personal things - such as reading
blogs. Video and sound do not lend themselves to inconspicuousness. ( I think
that’s the biggest word I’ve ever used in a sentence. ) For those people not
fortunate enough to have internet access at home, video blogs are not very
appropriate for places like public libraries, and other public internet access
areas.
In closing, video blogging is an interesting trend - but it’s not the future of
blogging. Good old fashioned text is - because it works.
About the Author
Leroy Brown
Blogging Blog
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