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I was a little annoyed at the shit I got for maintaining Wikipedia’s entry for Vlog. Everyone’s an expert it would seem, on what a vlog is, and very few seem to remember the point of Michael Verdi‘s Vlog Anarchy video: the minute you define what it is, you kill off all other possibilities. I tried to support this view on Wikipedia, but I failed.
Recently, one of my earlier videos, which received quite a bit of acclaim at the time, has been virtually forgotten in favour of a newer similar video that is being touted as the first of it’s kind. Don’t get me wrong, the new one is much better. But after I got over my slightly bruised ego, I got to thinking about all the cool videos I’ve seen over the last four months, and the few if any of the new videobloggers that will ever see them. I think it’s time new vloggers went back and checked out some of the cool stuff that’s been done in the last six months, specifically the amazing stuff that originally inspired me to start videoblogging in the first place.
Trigger number three was Adrian Miles‘ recent exceptionally cool remix of Michael’s afformentioned vlogging masterwork. What better example to use, even though he’s picked on in the video.
So yes, I maintained Wikipedia, I deleted a fair number of examples because I thought they were posted as traffic pullers, and here I am responding in text and not video. These are all things Michael disdain’s in his video, and I can’t find a single fault in his reasoning.
So here it is again. If you’ve already seen it, please take another look. If you haven’t, its mandatory viewing. In everything I do and everything I write, I cannot fault this man and a video which may forever be the videoblogging community’s manifesto and masterwork. I give to you again — Michael Verdi’s Vlog Anarchy.