vlogging saw a strong increase in popularity beginning in the year 2005. The Yahoo! videoblogging Group, once seen as the centre of the vlogging community, saw its membership increase dramatically in that same year. the growth in the popularity of Vlogs can be attributed to several factors, such as the release of a new generation of iPods capable of playing video files and the introduction of video into the iTunes store. The popularity of all types of internet based video also grew significantly in this same period. This is evident in the increase of internet traffic to sites such as YouTube. In late 2005-2006 vlogs became a significant contributor to clip culture.
1998 – Adrian Miles publishes a paper called Cinematic Paradigms for Hypertext
2000, Nov 27 – Adrian Miles posts his first (known) videoblog entry ever.
2004, Jan 1 – Steve Garfield launches his video blog and declares that 2004 would be the year of the video blog.
2004, June – Peter Van Dijck and Jay Dedman start the Yahoo! Videoblogging Group, which becomes the centre of a community of vloggers.
2004, Sept – iPodderX, the first desktop video aggregator is released.
2004, Dec – mefeedia.com is the first vlog directory to use an aggregator.
2005, Jan – VloggerCon, the first video blogger conference, is held in New York City.
2005, Feb – FreeVlog, a step-by-step guide to setting up a videoblog using free tools and services, launches.
2005, May – Steve Jobs (Apple) announces audio and video podcast support in iTunes.
2005, June – The Yahoo! Videoblogging Group grows to over 1,000 members.
2005, July – VlogMap.org launches using Google Maps and Google Earth to display vloggers worldwide.
2006, June – Vloggercon 2006 is held in San Francisco
2006, Nov – 2006 Vloggies, the first annual videoblogging awards, is held in San Francisco.
March 2, 2007 at 10:45 am
Vlog questionnaire summary
I asked 4 people whether they had heard about Vlogs, and if so if they used them regularly.
3 out of the 4 people had never heard about Vlogs. These were people aged 46, 50 and 16. The only person who had heard about Vlogs was a 17 year old boy, who had only recently heard about vlogs, but doesn’t use them.
November 25, 2007 at 6:39 pm
Umm, asking 4 people proves absolutely nothing. Incidentally, neither does asking 100 people. You have to make sure that your sample group is representative of the group of people you are trying to define. If your sample groups aren’t representative of that group, your efforts to question people are pointless because your findings will be inconclusive.