Well if moblogging is “mobile-web-logging” and vlogging is “video logging”, then MoVoBlogging or MoVlogging is clearly mobile-video-web-logging”. There’s a bandwagon here that others are exploring. I haven’t yet seen a vlog that is a MoVlog… but by the time I finish this post, it will exist in the blogosphere. Any blogger with a camera phone won’t be able to resist the urge…
In terms of pure “vlogging” or “vogging”, I came across what Adrian Miles has called a “Vogging Manifesto”. I’m not sure I agree with him on the purity of “vogging”. He seems to have an artist’s perspective. But blogs as a media are multidimensional and multifunctional: they are instantiated in a variety of forms. So I would expect future vlogs to inherit these bloggy attributes. So from the purist perspective, I would not call my video “performative”, as vogma dictates. To me, the video is perhaps more descriptive of textual elements of a post. It elaborates and “vividizes” my textual message. Video is gestural and accompanies my verbal message. On the other hand, since my text may refer directly to scenes in a movie, the text also cannot be interpreted in isolation. To me the essence of a vlog is a multimedia message where meaning is bound to both elements both in text and video. It always comes back to this for me… the communicative media of language goes beyond word and text.
My most favorite subjects side-by-side… BB and Titan. BB is the annoying one trying to get me to play with him. Titan I called over and indicated with a gesture that he should bark. If I hadn’t done that we’d still be staring at each other.
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