Quiver & Quill

V-blogs, video blogs, video diaries…

When you actually have to watch someone talk about their life on video, you see very quickly the difference between an interesting, well constructed narrative and say, me talking to myself as I shave. Perhaps in a post-modernist way, the latter has real value. But in our society, where we expect to be entertained, where we don’t have enough of an attention span to remember why we’re searching for meaning, I can’t imagine the mundane video blogs working. It’s like reality tv. with no editor. And unlike text blogs, it’s harder to scroll.

Generation Y? Ready…Ready…Go:

And for some added amusement: Here’s an example of a video blogger telling her audience that—collective gasp here–she will no longer publish her video blog.

BTW, I’m sure I’ll have a video blog in less than a year.

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