The World Hates Video Blogging?
Jim Kukral notes that whenever he writes about it, he gets a ton of comments. He points to a recent TechCrunch post on Magnify.net that also generated similar comments. Someone noted that Scoble is a "writter" [sic] not a pretty face. I have to agree, Scoble is not one of these artificially tanned, deep-voiced talking heads--not by a long shot. Neither are many of the popular bloggers who are migrating onto online video.
I, for one, think that online video blogging is just now getting started and the possibilities for the bloggers turning into video casters are north of huge.
Media history is filled with the leaders of one media category leading the charge into the next. Journalists became the first radio voices and they now call that the Golden Age of Radio. Then the voices of radio became th first faces of television and we call that the Golden Age of TV. Over time, the marketing teams got more say on who would speak and who would appear and the replacements were smoother and more polished then their predecessor. They were also dumbed-down and mediocre to make it safe for sponsors who wanted to avoid controversy.
It seems to me that we are not yet into a golden age of video blogging, but we will soon be.The early players are coming in for the most part from text blogging. They are restricted so far by technical issues, time restraints and costs. But those things always fall by the wayside.
Will the Scoble and Makliks fall by the wayside? Maybe. Maybe not. What's important is that there is something new and eciting and different which is moving into the forefront. Despite the detractors that Jim points to, the world is interested in Video Blogging, and as the tools get better and innovation refines the tools, I predict a Golden Age of Video Blogging will happen in the next few years.
I only hope that it does not get as mucked up as did the Golden Age of Television, where the people who were truly entertaining and informative were eroded and replaced by those who were bland but pretty.
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