Comments on: On video posting

By: One more note on video blogging

One more note on video blogging — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:45:00 +0000

[...] talked a lot recently about negative reactions to video blogging. This post is more neutral, and addresses a couple of distinctions my other posts didn’t [...]

By: Sapphire

Sapphire — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:03:21 +0000

@Bonnie, I can’t STAND it when the only instructions available are video. I just leave the site when that happens. Bloggers are one thing, but I can’t believe companies offering a service don’t get the need for an option other than video.

@Empress, that’s another good point: if you can’t skim it to see if it’s worth watching, you might tend to just skip it. So video bloggers really have to maintain a higher quality to keep the audience coming back.

@Sahara, that’s precisely how I feel.

By: Sahara

Sahara — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:13:00 +0000

I personally do not like the video blogging either. With a written blog I can scan and determine if I want to read the full blog. With a video, I have to watch it or trash it. Decisions, decisions!

By: Empress

Empress — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:44:04 +0000

Honestly, I’m not a big fan of video blogging. For the longest time I’d just skip the videos and go read what they’re posting. Some RSS feed readers don’t show the video is even on the post – I’ve got one of those, so if they don’t write “I’ve got a video” – I miss it completely.

Over the past few months though, I’ve been watching a few more videos from Mark at 45n5 and Jim Kukral – when the topics sound interesting.

Sometimes I think there are people out there video blogging – and filling up space with crap. I guess that’s like the Internet in total. There is no quality-control… and that can be a bit frustrating (no I’m not into censorship.) It’s just annoying at times to realize that there is a lot of nothing out there.

We always have the choice to watch or not, as Bonnie said above – it’s just sometimes harder to know when to watch it and when to skip it. So I save myself the hassle most of the time and not bother watching.

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:43:12 +0000

I HATE VIDEO! There I’ve said. It’s slow to download and if my connection is slow, then it runs in fits and starts. It’s noisy and as you said, I can’t skim it to see if I even want to read it.

I think you can turn people off by always video blogging. I subscribed to one blog because I liked what was said but there were too many videos which meant I was never reading anything so I unsubbed.

I’m working for a marketer that wants me to do some videos on camista studio, so they are just tutorials–showing screen shots of how to do something. People will have a reason to choose to watch or not. I can always make sure we have written information as well.