Videoblogging

Video blogging was the natural progression for bloggers writes Jennifer Woodward Maderazo in “5 Videoblogs That Do It Right”. Having trawled the net for various videoblogs, I agree that the most appealing are those with fairly high production quality, run for no more than a couple of minutes and follow a consistent sequence (eg regular format – starting credits etc). The charm of many is their ability to entertain or inform in such a short period of time we do not feel as though it is robbing us of valuable time in our overwhelmingly busy lives. Ask a Ninja and Alive in Baghdad were excellent. However, localising this phenomena, Frezned (aka Tom Mclean), a Geelong local, launched a series of YouTube videos that attract up 500,000 views each. He now also writes a weekly column of ramblings for the Geelong Advertiser. Just shows that filming yourself, in your bedroom, talking about nothing in particular can make you seemingly popular and interesting to others. Whatever people post, someone, it seems, is bound to watch it!