Friday, February 21, 2003

my thoughts on audio/video/mo/etc-blogging I'm very interested in all of the new weblog entry/storage methods being explored. I'm sure that, in short order, audio blogging and video blogging will be available to the masses. I am also fairly certain, however, that it will be much longer before such applications of the technology are mainstream. A couple of reasons: One of the primary benefits of weblog technology is that through aggregation of multiple sources, you can skim through a tremendous amount of data in a (relatively) short period of time. Content contained in media must be viewed (at least currently) in real time--even to be previewed. While excerpts could be entered in text, such duplication of content would raise the bar for making an entry. Ultimately we may have voice-to-text transcription happening behind the scenes, which would really bring media-blogging into the fold. Add GPS-enabled time/date/location stamping and other useful meta-data and the picture has real potential, especially for small vertical applications of weblog-like technology. I guess my number two is really an extension of number one. How do you permalink an excerpt of an audio or video entry? Unless I'm missing something (which is entirely possible), you can't--at least today. When automatic computer-generated transcriptions are associated to the time code of the video source, we'll be cooking with gas. I can then point to a specific word or sentence in your entry. TrackBack and comment strings could be very interesting in this context--I could watch/listen to the whole conversation "thread", with multiple participants, in my media tool. I am very excited about the possiblity of multimedia weblog entries, but I see them as an augmentation of the existing text-based medium as opposed to a replacement. Some related articles: http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/webwatch/story/0,12455,858719,00.html http://www.audblog.com/ http://www.denniskennedy.com/realtime.htm 9:15:03 AM    comment []