Scrubs Video Blog?
Published by Steve Garfield on 28 Oct 2005 at 4:44 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under Vlog News.
The TV show Scrubs now has a video blog.
The only problem is that it doesn’t have permalinks, comments are not enabled, posts are not in reverse chronological order, and there isn’t an RSS 2.0 feed with media enclosures to subscribe to.
One other small thing that bothers me. They call each post a video blog. Each post is not a video blog, it’s a video blog post. Well, it is a video blog post if it was in a video blog, which these posts are not. They are just video on a web page.
Oh, and one more thing. When you click over to watch the video, on a Mac, you are prompted to download a 65 MB file to watch the 320 x 240 QuickTime version. Oh my!
Cross posted from Steve Garfield’s Off On A Tangent: Daily weblog on pop culture and technology.
steev on 28 Oct 2005 at 10:15 pm: 1
I think it’s somewhat amusing that people have been regularly putting audio and video on websites for over a decade now but all of a sudden now that someone has invented some new format for describing said activity (RSS), now a site is to be chastised when they don’t conform to this new trend. oh well. screw it, it’s only a TV show.
Steve Garfield on 30 Oct 2005 at 4:24 pm: 2
RSS doesn’t describe the activity of putting video on a website, it describes the activity of allowing people to SUBSCRIBE to the website and get new videos automatically delivered to you.
That is the breakthrough.
Mongo Brain on 31 Oct 2005 at 6:35 pm: 3
What qualifies it as a vlog- the ability for visitors to comment, the chronology or the RSS-feed? Does it need all three? I am asking this seriously because I am trying to understand how vlogs/blogs are different from websites.
Steve Garfield on 1 Nov 2005 at 12:29 pm: 4
Hi Mongo Brain,
In it’s most simple form, a vlog is just a blog with video in it.
Over on Wikipedia, they have a pretty thorough definition of blog.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblog
Add to that definition, video.
To answer your question, comments, reverse chronology and an RSS feed are not required for a blog or vlog.
What is required is a permalink. This is a permanent link to a post. These permalinks allow others to link to a specific post in your blog/vlog. That’s one way that the community of blogging/vlogging grows, by everyone linking to things that they find interesting.
Susan on 1 Nov 2005 at 12:31 pm: 5
To me, personally, as I have heard Steve say in the past, simply put–a vlog is a blog with video content. I don’t think it “needs all three,” as you mention. However, those three things combined make a vlog easy to maneuver and user-friendly–they, combined, are the normal way that a person sets up their blog. For example, if a person’s vlog posts are not in chronological order, how am I going to know what the new posts are, so I can only watch them? Or, another example, if a vlog doesn’t have an RSS feed, I am unlikely to keep up with it, because that’s how I “watch” (if you will) my favorite vlogs.