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It’s funny, I spent a lot of time during my ride to Melbourne, thinking about videoblogging, without realising that the videoblogging list was at the same time arguing about Wikipedia. Well it has taken some time to get all the video from that trip down, but I’m finally getting to some of the more interesting footage, ironically about the definition of videoblogging.
This was shot somewhere near Eden, mid-way between Melbourne and Sydney. I just decided to stop for some reason, and record a rant. It’s fairly long, but please stick with it, as it feeds into some more related video over the next few days.
I haven’t read Wikipedia for 5 weeks now, and I haven’t read the videoblogging email group for 4 weeks. And you know what? It’s the best decision I ever made. Now if only there were an announce list instead of a discussion list… I want to know what’s new, but I don’t want the same old arguments over and over again, because I really no longer give a shit.
And so Josh remixed my last video, which was a remix of Zadi‘s Giuliani video. Yeah, I like it better this way.
One of the great things about videoblogging, is the immediacy of the medium. I can read a blog, an email list, or watch a videoblog, then record a response, and have it online as a reply within the hour. And I’m in another country (Australia) from the majority of people I’m having a discussion with.
But whenever I try to use the medium this way, something always goes awry. In this case, I get back from Melbourne on Friday, manage to read my email on Saturday, only to find a discussion slagging my Wikipedia changes, from the previous Monday. So I record a response video, and upload it on Saturday night, but Ourmedia crashes on me, and it’s not until today (two weeks after the initial discussion took place), that my video gets published.
I’ve calmed down now, I haven’t read the videoblogging email list for over a week, and I was seriously considering just deleting the video and getting on with my life. But one of the fun things about videoblogging, is just making video and publishing it, taking a risk, and living with the consequences.
So here it is, recorded just after I read the original “What is videoblogging?” bitch-off on the email list. My apologies for the language, or if I offend anyone. My opinion on the definition hasn’t changed (it’s gone back three months to the pathetic description it used to be), and my refusal to go back to Wikipedia hasn’t changed, but I’m now comfortable with that decision. Oh, and I don’t really mean “Fuck Wikipedia”. Just “Fuck the Vlog entry on Wikipedia…”
Singleton and I decided to go to the Melbourne videoblogger meetup. Problem is, that’s about 900 kms away. So we decided to make the journey by motorcycle. This is us prepping for the trip.