“What is the use of blogging?” There are as many answers to that question as there are individuals or businesses. Yet that’s one of the answers, as individuals can blog for personal uses, while businesses might set up blogs to inform and get feedback from customers. A solitary person, on the other hand, may keep the blog as a diary or as a connection to a wider online community. And we can’t forget the blogs that gossip and provide news about the doings of public figures. It’s when you view blogs as part of a community, though, that the possibilities [...]

Just as people have settled comfortably into maintaining their text-based blogs, along comes video blogging to expand the medium yet again. Now there is a dimension that can be achieved that goes beyond the static blogs of text and photographs. Videos add vivid life to the information and opinion presented on a blog, thus creating a bridge between the once separate worlds of text and film. With a video blog entry, the primary means of communication is the video itself rather than the written word, although text will label or augment what the viewer sees, and can certainly be used [...]