Video bloggers claim spotlight / Online diaries looking a lot like television
Video bloggers claim spotlight / Online diaries looking a lot like television:"Jay Dedman's life plays out in snippets of video, captured on a handheld video camera and posted on his online diary, Momentshowing.
A Manhattan subway bomb scare spurs him to post a photo montage of Sept. 11 and the days before and after. In another entry, he reveals his budding romance with fellow blogger Ryanne Hodson. Most recently, he documents their recent cross-country move from New York to San Francisco.
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No longer satisfied with transcribing through just words or photographs in their online diaries, thousands of Web loggers, or bloggers, have turned to video blogging. In place of text, or sometimes in addition to it, "vloggers" use film clips. The clips last a few seconds to a few minutes and are archived one after another in chronological order, the most recent first.
They represent the latest means in catching fragments of life, made possible now that more and more people have access to high-speed Internet service and the necessary equipment, basically a camcorder, a computer and cheap, sometimes even free, software and storage services. "
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