Is video the next big thing?

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The rise in popularity of websites such as Youtube or google Video and the ease of producing a simple video using camera phones etc has led to a boom in individual video production.

Blogging was the big thing at the turn of the millennium and now it seems video blogging or 'vlogging' is the next best thing. It's more immediate, more emotive ('emo') and possibly less time consuming than writing a blog post.

Video and the Internet also has the ability to elevate Joe Bloggs to relative fame, wheras traditional routes to media success are long, hard and usually depend on a good list of contacts.

Do you watch alot of video on the Internet? If so why?

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By AndrewE from http://www.writerspace.net

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The thing about video vs. text is this. In text I can easily search and only read the parts that I'm interested in. Also, making the text searchable requires little to no work by the writer.

However, video is different because its harder to find exactly the parts that I want to watch. Also, there does nto exist technology to make videos automatically searchable and indexable like text is.

Mostly I only watch videos for entertainment.