Chapter 8. Video Blogging

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At the first Northern Voice in February 2005, there was a great session on podcasting and video blogging (or vlogging as it was called a lot back then). I sat in the audience and thought that I could do a podcast without too much trouble, but a video blog, no way. Back then nothing about doing a vlog was easy. Editing software, bandwidth, and storage space weren’t cheap (or free). The consensus was that vlogging was only for the hardcore sorts who also had access to their own servers (or friends who had their own servers).

Just four years later and it’s a different story. Vlogging is as simple as buying a $150 hand-held ...

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