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Video blogging and its impact on the news media, film culture, international relations and Internet business models

Blogs bristling with home-made videos are mushrooming across the Internet. They tell a highly personal story of every day life that promotes international empathy. Will they one day become a financial living instead of a hobby? Will the vloggers in their 20s not only stop watching the traditional television media in preference to the Xbox, Playstation and iPod, but actually supplant the staid "old" media with increasingly polished and highly efficient video production efforts? Are the emergent vlogger networks the 21st century's new media empires? One of the most elegant ways to watch vlogs is the ANT player. The software automatically downloads videos for RSS video feeds. Today, Netvideo interviews Jay Dedman, a member of the founding ANT team, about the ANT software and about the significance of vlogs. (The Quicktime version for Mac users is here and the Flash Video version for PC users is here). Unlike Rupert Murdoch demanding answers about the media's future from McKinsey for a King's ransom, you can find out the future of the media right here for free. With the release of Apple's new Tiger operating system this week making multi-party iChat video conferencing a reality, and strong rumours of a video-capable iPod/phone about to hit the market, there has never been a better time to find out about vlogging....

 


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