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Bloggerazzi
: David Galbraith defends the future of vlogs and invents a new word along the way:
Now imagine an SMS to blog gateway and a picture weblog posting pictures of celebrities snapped by passers by. Ubiquitous digital cameras and simple publishing will give way to a new type of Bloggerazzi – celebrities beware.
Right. Tie mobile publishing tools — text and photos — with mob technology — such as UPOC‘s cellular celebrity sightings — and you have a publicist’s nightmare.
Ugh. I guess so, if we really need more pictures of celebrities.
They widespread adoption of web-capable digital camera-phones will be the bane of the jackbooted thugs we call police as well.
They widespread adoption of web-capable digital camera-phones will be the bane of the jackbooted thugs we call police as well.
Let’s stop thinking about vlogging from just an adult perspective. Kids will drive vlogs. They have cameras, they have technological savvy and they have time. It is already happening — in a manner of speaking — on MTV.com at http://www.mtv.com/onair/mpeg_us/gallery.jhtml
Howard: AMEN! As I mentioned somewhere in my mess of vlog posts, my 6- and 10-year-olds have used the software to create video messages (including scripts); my son is about to do a school paper in video. Go to Screenblast and you see great work by young people. As with any innovation (or technology) count on the young to find the true potential. I just want to go along for the ride…
-jeff