Video Blogging needs specific software. Aisling Kelliher is trying to address the problem through the creation of cinemaware: software that allows for functions like capture, editing, annotating, transcoding, and ftp. It seems to be that she is creating this tool to facilitate Video Blogging such as she is experimenting with at her site, audiovisceral.net.

I think it is interesting to note how different Aisling's Video Blogging is from plain old Blogging. For example, in Blogging, I search through publicly available information, post a link to something interesting I found, and write some text almost like a caption, or commentary, to the link.

Aisling says: i am interested in developing a software tool that will provide users with a functional and uncomplicated method for publishing their video content online, using a diary format as the display and distribution framework. the goal of the application is to provide for a casual and natural approach to moviemaking, where the process of producing video content becomes embedded in the activities of daily life, and as straightforward and manageable to do as making a written entry in a traditional diary.

This is very interesting. I share similar goals. However, one of the problems with this approach is a) the camera and b) the content. Rather than create a tool where users can be casual moviemakers, why not create an environment where it's as easy to express an idea as picking up a pen and diary?

This environment would include vast amounts of material, and would have a story-based personalization engine. In fact, it would look like Google will look it 3-5 years.

Or perhaps it could be a box that had all of television digitized, and allowed users to organize the content according to their mood, and comment on top of it, as a means of expression not so different from a news analysis show on any cable news network.

Ahhhh, but it will take all of Aisling's efforts, and my own, and those of many many others before the media is in the hands of the people!