RSS feedIs it compelling, or just a fade of the new, like hypercolour tshirts?
Home movies are boring, I know because I grew up amongst families who used to shoot on Super 8 and have viewings at their houses. Apart from an exceptional few, most home movies are really boring. Wow, that’s Fred and Mary doing what they always do, but this time on a white screen in the dark! Why not turn the lights on and just ask them over?
So why aren’t videblogs boring? Well, the ones that are home videos are boring, and there’s more and more of them every day. In 2004 they weren’t, because they were a fad, and we got a kick out of seeing them online and in RSS feeds. But now you have to be something special or out of the ordinary if you want to keep an audience of anyone but your closest friends.
It’s the same with blogging. If you want to find out what your friends are doing, then become one of almost 9 million members of Live Journal. The popular blogs are the ones doing or saying innovative things, and not just diary entries or home movies.
Sure videoblogging is taking off, but after the “home movies on the Internet” buzz is over, hopefully we’ll be left with some really interesting, if not amazing DIY content.
I try to keep this in mind with each video I do. Is this a home video? Or is it something more worthy of using up my viewers’ valuable time?