That's what we said a couple of years ago and now we got one (lol). Hmmmmmm? Still what is a vlog and why do we need one?
That is a great question so I will try and explain what we do here at GASC with videos and how we syndicate and distribute our videos.
Video plays an important role in our ability to show and demonstrate what we do here at GASC.
By now everyone has heard of YouTube and has probably watched something on YouTube.
Well at GASC we decided several years ago that video was going to be important in the future of our school in terms of education and marketing.
The following represents GASC video blog hosted by Blogger/Blogspot which was purchased by Google. We post videos that we produce and publish ourselves along with videos that we find interesting. You can comment on any of our videos and we encourage your input so we can continue to offer you a quality experience on our website.
If you wish you can visit our video blog hosted by Blogspot by clicking here.
A vlog is nothing more than video blogging or posting videos to a website that syndicates information through a subscription service generally via an RSS (real symple syndication) feed. Sometimes shortened to vlogging (pronounced 'vlogging', as opposed to 'v-logging') or vidding or vidblogging is a form of blogging for which the medium is video, and is a form of Internet television. Entries often combine embedded video or a video link with supporting text, images, and other metadata. Entries can be recorded in one take or cut into multiple parts. It is also a very popular category on YouTube.
Video logs (vlogs) also often take advantage of web syndication to allow for the distribution of video over the Internet using either the RSS or Atom syndication formats, for automatic aggregation and playback on mobile devices and personal computers.
Why do we Vlog?
We really regard the term Vlog or Vlogging as simply journaling our videos, and we have alot of video assets we want to share with our audience. Therefore, we created a couple of avenues to distribute our heavy equipment videos.
We could have hired some web gurus to write some great heavy equipment video coding software that would allow us to show our heavy equipment videos all over the web, but why do that when you have YouTube which spends millions making a great site to distribute our heavy equipment videos.
Hence, we decided to distribute our videos in two different methods:
Via a heavy equipment video channel on YouTube. Click here to view, or just go to the player below.
Via a video blogging site hosted by Blogger, to see that site Click here.
Why do we distribute videos through two different sites?
We wanted to create a final resting place or video vault for all our videos that we created and will create in the future; therefore, we opted to store these videos on YouTube. The idea of distributing these videos also required us to have a blog that we could then burn feeds out the the web and let people subscribe to the videos through a blog rather than YouTube. Actually, they both do the same thing however they both serve separate audiences.
Please enjoy our heavy equipment videos through what ever method you choose.
History of Vlog
Video blogging arose as a video form of blogging.
Vlogging saw a strong increase in popularity beginning in 2005. The Yahoo! Videoblogging Group saw its membership increase dramatically in 2005. The most popular video sharing site to date, YouTube, was founded in February 2005. Many open source content management systems enable posting of video content allowing bloggers to host and administer their own video blogging sites. Moreover, convergence of mobile phones with digital cameras allow publishing of video content to the Web almost as it is recorded.
Radio Stations and television stations are now using video blogging as a way to help interact more with listeners and viewers.
2000, January 2 - Adam Kontras posts a written blog entry that links (via another page) to what it describes as "some compressed footage(only 222 KB)", a small MPG file. This has on occasion been referred to as a launch of the first video blog, "The Journey", detailing his move to Los Angeles and his attempt at show business.
2000, November 27 - Adrian Miles, then a senior researcher in New Media at the InterMedia Lab, University of Bergen, posts the first (known) video blog entry. Creates a number of videoblogs in the remaining months of that year that combine text, sound, photos, video and coding using a Quicktime Pro architecture, in which he coined the term 'vogs'. In that period he also publishes his "Vogma Manifesto" (a pun on Dogme 95) in the form of a 'vog' to inspire thinking about the possibile directions for videoblogging.
2003, March 1 - Lar�� Riske launches the first German videoblog THE NETSHOW based on television's late night show.
2004, January 1 - Steve Garfield launches his videoblog and declares that 2004 would be the year of the video blog.
2004, June 1 - Peter Van Dijck and Jay Dedman start the Yahoo! Videoblogging Group, which becomes the center of a community of vloggers
2004, September - Thiago Fialho launches the first (known) brazilian videoblog.
2005, January - Vloggercon, the first videoblogger conference, is held in New York City.
2005, July 20 - The Yahoo! Videoblogging Group grows to over 1,000 members.
2006, March 17 - the show with zefrank is launched. A short video program produced Monday through Friday for one year (March 17, 2006 - March 17, 2007).
2006, July - YouTube has become the 5th most popular web destination, with 100 million videos viewed daily, and 65,000 new uploads per day.
2006, July 5 - Host Amanda Congdon leaves Rocketboom over differences with her business partner Andrew Baron.
2006, November ��� The Vloggies, the first annual videoblogging awards, is held in San Francisco.
2007, May and August ��� The Wall Street Journal places a grandmother on the front page of its Personal Journal section. In August she is featured on an ABC World News Tonight segment showing the elderly now becoming involved in the online video world.
