Vlogging
Video blogging.
This implies regularity of production, unlike regular video-sharing practices.
Blip TV is a major platform for quality video blogging.
More Information
On Vlogging: http://www.seriousmagic.com/products/vlogit/ ; http://www.vlog.com/ ; An article at http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7226225/ . For an example see the live video blogs at vobbo.com
Wired has published a 3-part reportage on vlogging, at http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,68171,00.html?
Doing live video on a shoestring, a how-to based on personal experience at http://vloblive.info/
FireAnt, at http://www.antisnottv.net/ , “is said to be the easiest way to find, download and watch video on the web".
Directories
Compiled by Valentin Spirik:
• Democracy Channel Guide | Democracy Internet TV Channel Guide (channelguide.participatoryculture.org) - Democracy Player is now know as Miro http://www.getmiro.com/
• FireAnt.tv - Videoblogs, Vlogs, Video Podcast, Video Podcast Directory, Internet TV (getfireant.com)
• The videoblog and podcast directory. (www.mefeedia.com)
• VLOGDIR The Videoblog Directory listing thousands of vlogs and vodcasts (Note: "See VLOGDIR" only links to a photo of the directory - "Choose Category" and hit "Go" instead) (www.vlogdir.com)
• The blip.tv "Shows" directory (Click "Shows" and "Browse by..." to find content by genre.) (www.blip.tv)
One starting point for finding independently produced content on YouTube is
• "YouTube's Featured Videos by Category".
But the best way to find interesting content on YouTube might be to look at "Playlists" from users with similar interests or at "Related" when watching a video.
This page http://www.youtube.com/rssls explains how the YouTube RSS feeds work. Example: if you wanted to subscribe to the videos by YouTube user geriatric1927 http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=geriatric1927 you would add
feed://www.youtube.com/rss/user/geriatric1927/videos.rss
in e.g. Miro http://www.getmiro.com/ under "Channels" > "Add Channel...": all of this user's videos will then be downloaded automatically - including videos that he might add only later to his channel!