Russell's Blog

I will admit, YouTube is cool. You can upload video you made yourself. Fantastic. Great. Wonderful. But "vlogging"? That's just stupid.

Blogs are great because anyone who has...

• an idea
• a computer
• internet access
• modest command of a written language

...can start sharing their ideas with the rest of the world (at least, the rest of the world that has a computer). That's actually rather revolutionary. It's Many-to-Many communication on a scale never seen before.

But do you really want to see, you know, the masses? If we start with the quality of the average written blog entry, and we use that as a benchmark to predict the average quality of a vlog entry (were the practice to contaminate the general population), you get something rather like your uncle Ed's wedding video, except it's just a video of him trying to tell you something.

Please, for god's sake, spare us from this.