Blogs Confounding The MSM? They Haven't Seen VBlogging Yet

Granted, this is old news if you're an avid follower of rapid developments in the web. But just in case you missed this February 22, 2006 article in the TCSDAILY.com website, we're featuring it here. Titled, Will Video Kill The Blogosphere Star?, Silicon Valley writer and fellow blogger Ed Driscoll (see his bio here) describes one more powerful tool "new media mavens of the Blogosphere" might add to their amazing kits that just continue to tear apart the traditional way we interact with media, news and opinion.

Driscoll calls the new tool, videoblogging, or vblogging for short. In its most developed form, he compares it to a "one-man TV network."

Here are some of the ways vblogging has already made an impact and what it could become:

In some cases...you'd simply like to spice-up an otherwise static blog with a few clips....At a meeting of bloggers and US senators in November of 2005, blogger Justin Hart used his cell phone's video camera to record video of Senator Majority Leader Bill Frist, and upload it instantly to his Weblog.

...just as numerous text-oriented bloggers have made the jump to op-eds and articles, a professional-appearing vblog could be a powerful "audition reel"

Factors fueling the gathering momentum of vblogging are the "skyrocketing efforts to bring TV to the web", as Driscoll puts it, the affordable prices today of DV cameras and the "near-ubiquitous bandwidth availability", according to documentarian and blogger Evan Coyne Maloney.

Read the whole article.

I confess. I'm excited. And it's because here's one more force that strikes deep into how we look at news and how truth is disseminated. To quote Driscoll:

But just as newspapers learned after 9/11, TV networks are discovering that the Web allows anyone to end-run mass media.