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Highly recommend: Temple University professor and blogger Susan Jacobson's invaluable, February 25, 2007, article headlined "Legal Considerations for Audio-Visual Journalists.
As of February 7, 2007, "Twenty-four-year-old [videoblogger] Josh Wolf has spent 169 days behind bars because he won't give federal investigators the footage he shot of a violent street protest in San Francisco," according to The Associated Press.
He "has been incarcerated longer than any journalist in U-S history for refusing to hand over materials to the government," the AP noted.
To read more, please see "Freelance videographer now jailed 169 days for denying federal subpoena.
UPDATE: CNET News.com says Wolf has set a Guinness record for being the journalist incarcerated the longest for contempt. See "Video: Josh Wolf makes Guinness World Book of Records." Also see "Jailed blogger hits record as supporters rally."
"Blogs were and are central to the online discourse, their personal touch presenting information in a way that seems to suit the Internet audience best," says an article in the February 4, 2007, edition of The Australian.
"But something else is happening now that may give those blogs even more power," according to the article. "They are ceding to, or incorporating, video. And video -- more than any words -- has true political punch."
To read the entire article, please see "Video boosts power of the bloggers."
Rob Curley, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive's (WPNI) vice president of product development, this week started a series of posts detailing how the Naples Daily News' innovative Studio 55 came to be and how the publication produced video on demand (Vodcasts). See "What were the ideas and thoughts behind Studio 55?, which was posted January 24, 2007.
Rob said in a January 22, 2007, post that he decided to do the posts about the studio because there are Still so many questions about Naples’ Studio 55."
Today (January 27, 2007) he described "The equipment used for Studio 55." His next post will "look at what daily production and staffing looked like" at the Naples Daily News.
By the way, Rob "gained national attention when the Lawrence (Kansas) Journal-World made him "one of the first online editors in the nation chosen to lead a news organization’s entire print and broadcast news operations." He held the LKJ post from 2002 to 2004 before going to the Naples Daily News. He was there only 14 months before WPNI came calling. He started there in October 2006.
Rob rise to prominence is noted in FastCompany's November 2006 article headlined "Hyper-Local Hero."
Meanwhile, Rob has revealed that "a bunch" of WPNI's "new projects"... are about to launch in the next few weeks." He will discuss them at robcurley.com "as they are released."
"Blip.tv CEO Dina Kaplan wants to make video blogging into a paying profession for video makers," writes Red Herring reporter Michael Cohn in a January 19, 2007 post.
If you want to know how she intends to accomplish that, see "Blip.tv Brings Vlogs to Masses.
Mashable! social networking 2.0 says Saddam’s Execution Video Makes it to Google Video, YouTube, Revver. I'll admit, I watched it. It's not the best quality but somebody captured the event. Rest assured, the official video of the execution will surface on Internet one day.
California Blogger Robert Scoble was with Senator John Edwards' presidential campaign last night in Des Moines, Iowa, where 1,500 people "packed a hall to hear Edwards speak with almost two years to go before the general election."
"Here Jake Ludington [link added], a geek working on Lockergnome [link added], brings a small Sanyo Xacti camera and records some of one of those conversations and put it up on Google video," Scoble wrote. "No mainstream video press was around."
The point of this post? The story still got covered whether the MSM was around or not. That's why you don't worry about whether they recognize your work. The work speaks for itself.
"While John Edwards’ pre-announcement of his candidacy on YouTube [link added] Wednesday night [December 27, 2006] has online video enthusiasts excited, vloggers are learning today what newsy bloggers have come to expect — when you scoop the mainstream media, don’t expect them to recognize the feat," reports NewTeeVee in a December 28, 2006, post headlined "MSM Ignores Edwards’ YouTube Debut."
Question: Why should vloggers even care if the MSM [Mainstream Media] recognize their work? They don't need the MSM to validate them.
USA TODAY's Janet Kornblum says in a December 26, 2006, post that, "The revolution was not televised; it was blasted all over the Internet."
"Social networks, led by MySpace, became mainstream this year; millions joined the ranks of bloggers, and citizens learned to use cameras and Web tools to become watchdogs," she wrote.
"But few would dispute that there was one clear standout in 2006: the homegrown video site YouTube," she added.
To read more, please see "Web-based video storms the planet."
Although I'm not a Geek, I really like Robert Scoble's video interviews with Geeks. In addition to being one of the world's most influential bloggers, he is PodTech's Vice-President of Media Development and has done interviews with tech 
luminaries such as Google's Mark Lucovsky, NetGear CEO Patrick Lo and Eric Allman, founder of Sendmail.
Interviews with the above-mentioned and other Geeks can be heard on The Scoble Show Web site.
Listening to Scoble didn't just start. I've listened to many of the interviews he conducted for Channel 9 when he was Microsoft's technical evangelist. I've also listened to 95 percent of the interviews posted on The Scoble Show. The bottom line is that, I've learned a lot from the Channel 9 interviews and the current interviews.
However, there is one thing that annoys me about them. I think Scoble cracks jokes and cackles too much in the interviews. It interrupts ideas and makes it difficult to hear some of the information given by the interviewee.
Robert, if you are going to laugh and joke a lot during your interviews at least edit some of it out. It's quite annoying unless you're doing a party video.
By the way, I visit Scobleizer, Scoble's popular and influential tech blog, every day. Why? It is interesting,educational and links me with people and blogs I would most likely not find on my own.
NOTE: This post can also be found over at The Technology Free Press, my tech blog.
"Break.com, one of the rising number of Web sites offering user-generated videos to rival the likes of YouTube, said on Sunday [November 26, 2006, it would nearly double the amount of money it pays for video clips to $400," according to Reuters.
For more, see "Web site hikes pay for fledgling video directors."
"EU Considering Regulating Video Bloggers" says an October 17, 2006, post at Slashdot. Its seems that some in the EU wants to treat video blogging as if its television.
Slashdot links to a Times Online article headlined "Amateur 'video bloggers' under threat from EU broadcast rules that attempts to provide some answers. Frankly, I think the EU should shelved the idea. Leave the Internet alone. Let it be wild and free, with exception of spamming and criminal activity.
I read a lot of posts and articles last week on the Google-You Tube deal and one of the best is Christian Science Monitor reporter Clayton Collins' October 13, 2006, article headlined "It's a YouTube world ... we just surf in it." For me, it really put YouTube into perspective.
By the way, The Monitor asked: "Will Google's $1.65 billion acquisition of the website squash its independent spirit?"
Will it? I don't know. What will cause problems, I think, is if traditional-style ads are place on it, without consideration for the way young netizens like their media. That is independent, unforced, uninterruptive and interactive. Also, the use of copyrighted material could be a problem, unless deals are made with copyright holders. They seem to be headed in the right direction on that. However, that doesn't mean some copyright holder won't take advantage of the situation and try to make millions. It's the American way.
The following posts also helped me understand what propelled the YouTube phenomena:
Google-YouTube: Another Day, Another Nerd's Virginity Lost --- DealBreaker.Com, New York, USA
YouTube founder rides video clips to dot-com riches --- Chicago Tribune, USA
YouTube chiefs open up on inside issues --- The Mercury News, USA
Bangladeshi strikes fortunes as Google acquires YouTube at $1.65b --- Financial Express.bd, Bangladesh
He took a videocam, and made a fortune --- Pioneer Press, Minnesota, USA
Riches, sense of pride not enough for 3rd YouTube founder --- Blogging Stocks, USA
How to build the next YouTube: Five lessons from the Google deal --- Blogging Stocks, USA
YouTube community worried by Google deal ---USA Today, Virginia, USA
Are we just too big, asks Google boss --- Guardian Unlimited, UK
YouTube Wasn't too Legit for Google to Get --- TV Technology, Virginia, USA
"If YouTube truly scrubbed all copyrighted material from their site tomorrow, what would be left? Would there be ANYTHING left interesting enough to draw an audience?"
"I believe the answer is yes, in the form of video blogs," Kohler says in answering his own questions.
To read more, see "YouTube Becoming a User Contributed Video Blogging Platform." It's a good discussion.
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