This isn't really a blog roll but is a very small list of people who I have either read or watched regularly, or who have said and done things worth considering in term of thinking about videoblogging and video online as something beyond TV, or 'shows', or ways to get noticed by 'real' media.
Mark Hancock. Mark is in Britain and has a foot in academic waters. Has made work that thinks past video as straightline beginning middle and end and has written some excellent material about online video. I think he's lost it all, and has moved into writing for $, but there's good stuff happening in the grey matter.
Andreas Pedersen Haugustrup. A Dane, which is already quite a recommendation (I have an affinity with Scandinavian social democratic attitudes and values) who is a major Drupal developer, coder, and thinker. Has also had a toe in academic waters completing a Masters in communication, and is also someone who wants video online to be much more than just video on a webpage. Has written a few small bits of software to help this along, and has strong ideas about syndication, RSS and the sorts of backend conversations that media files need to have to weave things together. Co-author of the lumiere manifesto with Brittany Shoot.
Will Luers. North American, sorry United States (with apologies to my Canadian friends). Made very beautiful interactive web based videos from the beginning, and just gets the connections between media making and video as a newly invented everyday, informal but deeply elegant sort of practice. His work is most consistently what I would think of as approaching what I'd like to do myself, video online (and other forms of image making) as a type of contemporary Pillow Book.
Rupert Howe. What we here in Australia call a pom. Which means he's in Britain. Rupert makes, and makes, and then just in case he makes some more. Has started a media company that wants to think differently for media practice in the context of online environments, but this time it is with someone who gets these things and isn't just old media shysters selling their latest turn key social-media-web-two-point-oh connect with Gen Y solution to other old media types.
Jay Dedman. Another citizen of the United States. Jay is the grass roots dirt under the fingernails let's just do it maternal father of videoblogging. All US pragmatism and chutzpah he always asks why about the things I carry on about, but whereas I talk and think about it, he does. He co-founded the videoblogging discussion list, co-initiated the first vloggercon, and between himself, Ryanne Hodson and Michael Verdi (the triumvirate of plain vanilla video blogging) have defined what it means to advocate and promote video blogging for the masses.
Michael Sullivan. I don't really watch Sull's material, but on some of the more specialised email lists his posts are always must read material. He can code and make things from code up that I can only dream about, and he is one of those who understands protocols, services, code and video. There aren't many (as the flood of copy cat video hosting services and the like attests) and just as some experiment in video, he experiments with web apps and services to do things with video.
Korsakow System. Well, that isn't a person, its the project initiated by Florian Thalhofer and now (as of 2009/10) getting a kick along with Canadian research funding under the tutelage of Matt Soar. It is a software system that lets you make web delivered interactive video works, sort of video hypertext. It has some problems, but is a useful place to kick some tyres in the area of other ways of conceiving making and telling in this domain.
Daniel Liss. Of "Pouring Down TV" fame. Key small scale video works that are exquisitely crafted observations. Aesthetically observed interventions of the everyday, sometime close to what a video pillow book will become.