AlterNet reported today on the increasing popularity and social benefits of vlogging:
Last fall, approximately 2.5 million Americans watched Jon Stewart call Tucker Carlson a “dick”; not because CNN’s Crossfire had such a large viewing audience (only a half million tuned into the show itself), but because they could access Stewart’s uproarious appearance on a slew of videoblogs, or “vlogs.”
In the world’s other high-profile democratization, the global democratization of media, vlogs appear to be the next stage. Whether by adding amateur video to blogs or by making video the focus, vloggers open windows into worlds, establishing direct lines of communication with content at once compelling and completely unfiltered by mainstream media.
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