i.e. video weblogging: “Welcome to a new age of blogging: video blogging. I’ve created two video weblogs — one about the new World Trade Center designs and one about my Christmas tree — because (a) there’s new software that makes it easy [more on that below] and (b) I’m becoming convinced that video is the next frontier for blogging. It’s a simple equation: We bloggers do not compete with newspapers, because we do not have news operations. Instead, bloggers compete with pundits because what we do have is opinions. And where do you find the most pundits? On TV.” BuzzMachine by Jeff Jarvis I don’t think I’d have the stomach for video content as insipid as some of what is to be seen in the weblogging world. I mean, come on, his Christmas tree??? I’m reminded of the quip about how opinions are like a certain part of your anatomy, you know the one, everybody’s got at least one of them. I don’t think “vlogging” will catch on, at least not with me. Unlike text weblogs, I wouldn’t have the patience to waste as much time as it would take to sift through content without quality control in a realtime streaming medium. A wannabe talking head could be painful to watch in a way a would-be commentator can never be, no matter how badly they write, in a text medium. Just take a look at Jarvis’ posed profundity if you need convincing. He is clearly a man who wants to be a seminal trendsetter. After all, he created “THE Vlog”. I should know; I write THE FmH. [Hmmm, maybe I’m just jealous…}