Blogging and Video
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008One of my favorite blogs is EveryDayShouldBeSaturday. It’s about college football and funny as hell – two of my very favorite things. However, Orson (the blogger) has one annoying habit – about every 4th or 5th post he resorts to the blogging equivalent of mailing it in – he posts a video. Posting a video, usually by embedding YouTube, is a blogger’s way of saying “I don’t have anything interesting to say, so here, watch some TV.”
Sometimes video is pertinent and interesting, like when a blogger is referencing something or someone in particular (like Rey Maualuga), but just as often it means that a blogger doesn’t have anything to say.
The ability to post photo/audio/video is relatively new, as is blogging. When people get new tools, it takes a while to figure out the best way to use them. Eventually the balance will get worked out. In the meantime, bloggers with little to say will keep posting video.