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October 14, 2006

Steve Garfield Answers: What is the advantage of Vlogs?

Steve Garfield: What is the advantage of Vlogs?

"Vlogs have been around a while but they seem to be exploding now, what do you attribute this recent development to?

Vlogs are getting more coverage in the media. They are also becoming easier to find. More hardware devices are coming out that allow viewing of vlogs, both on TV and on portable devices.

Jeff Pulver has http://network2.tv/ a directory of Internet TV shows. Now that he has shows listed there, including mine, he's developing a list of the best shows based on visitor click throughs. It's a start. Blip.tv has a directory of recently uploaded videos. Mefeedia http://mefeedia.com/ helps you find new videos and recently added a recommended feature. http://mefeedia.com/recommendations/

I do a show called Vlog Soup http://stevegarfield.blogs.com/vlogsoup/ which is a clip show of recent video blogs that I like and want others to see. You are going to see more shows like this.

I use a few different desktop video aggregators like FireAnt and Democracy. I'd like to have some type of mechanism where I could click a link and rate videos I'm watching and have that rating be posted on my own site and also shared with a standardized and shared ratings system where this type of feedback could be collated.

Go over here to see some of my favorite vlogs and links to directories of vlogs and resources on starting a vlog:

http://www.squidoo.com/videoblogs/"

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