Commentary One
This is not quite a transcription and not quite the notes I used for my audio commentary on button number one in the BlogTalk ProtoType 3 vog. As several have indicated to me via email, they’d appreciate it in text (a point that one of the commentaries alludes to).
Why must video inn a blog be more than video in a blog?
Video must be more than video in a blog for the same reasons that text in a blog must be more than text in a blog. Our blogged text is highly granular in terms of linking. We can link from a letter, word, phrase, sentence, paragraph. From an image, a heading, an email address, a date and time stamp. From our blogroll. From our technorati profile.
Our text in a blog is highly porous to the network. It can be linked to from anywhere else on the netwrok. We have links to our entire blogs, to individual entries in our blogs, from other’s blogrolls and their individual entries. A blog is networked writing, not writing on the network. The former is woven by its links, in and out. The latter is publishing a web page. The former is fluid, variable, open. The latter is much more stable, closed.
<>For video to be blog like it needs to be more open. Until then it is video in a blog. This is a steop in the right direction. It is, after all, a bit more sophisticated than video embedded on a web page. But not a lot more. All the blog labour, the work of being blog like, is being relegated to the blog CMS. The video remains unaware of the network. Unlike your blog posts it does not know if it has been linked to, if it has been cited, or even how to include in itself something from somewhere else.
We’re slowly getting there. One day soon someone will let you embed clips into your sidebar just like flickr does with stills, then we’ll start to head in a better direction.