RSS feedOne 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…”
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Heh. Well, I understand why you’re pissed, but thus is the nature of the wiki. Sucks sometimes.
I won’t refute any of your comments here, but I like the changes. I’ve read encyclopedias before. I had Britannica growing up.
Anyway, I understand why you’re pissed. You put a lot of work into that entry (which is still there, in the most part). There have been some changes since I changed it that altered what I was trying to do. It’s frustrating as all hell.
Thanks for this video. You are a nice guy.
We should just post your vid at the top of the Wiki. Then they will get a clear idea of what a videoblog can be. Then they can read, which is fun, but is really like dancing about architecture…if you know what I mean.
Enjoyed the rant, with the mini lesson on camera point of view options. I hope you are feeling better now.
Getting ego-involved has its downside to be sure. While you had shepherded the thing for a long time, no wiki really belongs to any one person. At least that’s my understanding of it. Perhaps the world of wiki is not for you? Problem is, you have the passion for it; and that’s a double-edged sword. This is the reason I stay away from these kinds of things when on a subject about which I’m passionate.
Yeah look, good point. I did try not to get emotionally involved, and I think I did OK. My problem is that yeah I get very passionate about doing well, or helping to push something forward, and so get let down when I feel that the work is being sabotaged. Not because I’m selfish or protective of the work, but because the it sets back the cause. So yeah, I really don’t know if my attachment to it is the problem. I don’t think so. I think it’s more the disappointment of seeing it get set back so far.
heayeah!
so what do we do now?
i like the idea of describing the arguments…
as we spoke of before…i think mnay people were interested in the History…not so much the definition.
lets not give up here.
all i know is, you’re friggin’ hilarious and i’ve watched this clip several times over. eric rice showed it to me and i think you’re brilliant and extremely funny. i hope my first vlog’s can be a fraction as relevant and entertaining.
Thanks Irina.
Hey Richard,
I know we had differences in the past about the Wikipedia article but I think that it would really benefit from your input. A few non yahoo vlog group writers have added info. You should check it out.
pd