Video games used to be a niche hobby. But now, video games have become mainstream. Many of the people who played video games in high school are now 30-year old gamers.
With the growth of video games, there are many options to consider. There are consoles, mobile games, casual web games, and computer games. If you have enough money and time, you can enjoy all the options!
The ranks of the famous have traditionally been roles filled by movie stars, television stars, athletes and rock stars. The countenance of celebrity is changing to include a new, technology-oriented kind of superstar: The Vlogger. A vlog, if you have been hiding under a rock, is a blog (self-published online diary) with video. The vlog is trumping the blog as far as notoriety goes and the public’s love of the moving image hasn’t seen this much popularity since the invention of the moving picture in 1895. The difference being the technology necessary to become a vlogger, or to take the media into your own hands in the form of ‘citizen journalism’ as the genre is now touted, is becoming easier and easier. A camera, broadband, hosting site, software and content are the components needed to be a potential vlogstar.
Forbes.com has listed the Web Celeb 25, a summation of the current internet superstars influencing the Internet. Bloggers, podcasters and vloggers are among the individuals revolutionizing the Internet as we know it.
Tags: Videos · Blogging · Vlogging
Vlogs, the younger and wackier baby sister of blogs, create an interactive online video environment for viewers to watch programming, much like television, only shorter, without large budgets and no TV Guide. The vlog’s added feature that makes it different from tried-and-true television watching is that vlogging is interactive. The viewer can respond to the shows instantly, like reading a blog, through commentary and links to other sites. Vlogging software is not quite as user-friendly as blogging software but does not require much more technological skill to get a vlog site up and running. What’s required is a camera, a laptop or computer, broadband connectivity, video editing software, a host server, imagination and inspiration. Blog sites are numbering in the 70 millions and the ‘citizen’s journalism’ boom is thriving with the advent of the Video blog. At today’s count, Mefeedia.com tracks the vlogging revolution at 2,174,090 episodes from 22,744 video feeds from 13,561 websites. And counting.
Blogging, (for those of you in the Dark Ages- a (we)blog- n. an online journal that incorporates weblinks, reader commentary and archives of the owner/author’s posts. Can include photos or video) experienced a superboom from 2002-2005 and today’s technorati.com blogtracker shows 71.06 million blogs and counting. On Jan. 1st, 2004, Steve Garfield declared ‘The Year of the Videoblog’ and he proved to be an assured soothsayer. Video blogging, or vblogging, is the new media breakthrough within the latest presentation of web technology and interactive production and, in the case of the vlog, broadcasting.
The Vlogosphere is filled with an equal amount of bizarre nonsense, biased and unbiased news, politics, sit coms and a man dressed as SKELETOR giving his semi-weekly glimpse into the world of the unemployed superhero singing karaoke, griping at home and play-acting his foregone existence in Eternia. YouTube and similar sites such as blip.tv, mefedia.com and podcasting have made it easy and accessible for anyone with a camera, laptop, broadband connection and a dream (or disturbing nightmare) to post their video thoughts and accomplishments online. Everyone’s a filmmaker and it’s more or less uncensored.
Tags: Videos · Blogging · Vlogging
If you’re reading this, you already know that I’ve been blogging. I also recently started vlogging. If you haven’t already asked why, I’ll tell you. I felt that I have a lot to say and needed an outlet. No, not just some sort of random rant, but a means of sharing with others my views and opinions. And yes, I do seem to have quite a few! I also wanted to share with others more information about the business I conduct.
Of course I try to focus most of my communications on business related topics, however, I will on occasion take a tangent on life and other observations. I think this article would be categorized as a tangent. The point is I believe that I can provide a lot of good insight into business as well as some good general life guidance. Now don’t think that I think I’m all knowing and that I’m perfect or infallible, etc. It’s just that sometimes I notice things. Take it for what you will
