Watch MNN's "How To" Videoblog 15 Minute Segment!!
Video blogging, sometimes shortened to "vlogging" is a form of blogging for which the medium is video. Entries are made regularly and often combine embedded video or a video link with supporting text, images, and other metadata.
So you want to get a video blog? Well here is a list of websites that will make it easier to get started on your video blogging adventure.
1. Get a Blog - In order to have a video blog you must first start out with a blog.
Shortened from web log, a blog is a website in which items are posted on a regular basis and displayed in reserve chronological order.
http://blogger.com: Free service run by Google. Does not host video, only photos and basic page html.
http://wordpress.org: Free blog software for installation on your own server.
http://typepad.com $4.95 -$14.95 a month. Hosts Video, Audio and Photos
2. Learn how to upload your video to your blog.
- The following sites show you step by step how you can get your video ready for your blog. They also answer any questions you might have concerning any aspect of videoblogging such as compression and making a screen capture for your video.
http://freevlog.org: How to videoblog and host your media for free. Plus a substantial list of new vloggers, updated daily.
http://videoblogging.info: How-tos, FAQ, List of videobloggers, list of recent video posts
3. Publish your media for FREE - Some blogs might not let you upload your video directly. You may have to upload to a 3rd party site.
http://ourmedia.org: They provide free storage and free bandwidth for your videos, audio files, photos, text or software. Forever. No catches.
http://blip.tv: blip.tv is a video sharing site. Their goal is to change the world by bringing videoblogging to the masses.
4. Share your video! - Now that you have a video blog, you need to build an audience. By adding an RSS feed to your video blog people can subscribe to your vlog and watch it as new videos as uploaded.
http://getfireant.com
FireANT is a free RSS video aggregator and media player available for Mac OS X and Windows XP. With FireANT, you can subscribe to any RSS 2.0 feed with enclosures. FireANT will automatically download fresh audio and video content for you to watch and listen to. It can playback any media format, and syncs audio files with iTunes so you can easily add them to your portable MP3 player and syncs video files for playback on your Sony PSP.
http://mefeedia.com
Mefeedia.com is a free web based aggregator for videobloggers. It lets you subscribe to videobloggers and tag videos. Their mission is to make independent video on the internet findable.
http://vlogdir.com
A new Videoblog Directory Service that allows you to add a link to your videoblog along with descriptive details, RSS feeds for subscribers and also let's you attach media.
http://vlogmap.org
World map of videoblogs. Find vlogs near you, far away from you, add your feed, subscribe to feeds.
http://freevlog.org/wordpress
Daily updated vlog of new videobloggers, classic videoblogs and extra tutorials to supplement the
8 Step Freevlog tutorial.
5. Join the Community
Yahoo Group E-mail List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging
We discuss practical issues (bandwidth, process, need for a videoblogging tools) and more philosophical issues (why and what is a videoblog? ...). Join the conversation! A very good group has gathered here to make videoblogging a reality.
