Margaret’s 3rd year journalism blog

This week’s reading topic presents both positives and negatives to the new medium at hand. In this case, we’re talking about video blogs. As Jennifer Woodard Maderazo writes, although there are many low quality video blogs that contain unclear and inconsistent content, she found a few blogs that could prove successful in entertaining whilst informing the audience. Video blogging has opened new realms for communicating political, entertainment and lifestyle information.

Her top five include a comedy, technology, and wine video blogs. Rocketboom daily news is also on her list for presenting consistent news content. On this blog site, I watched quite an interesting and animated story about what makes a country a superpower and the United States’ status in the current environment.

Maderazo also uses the example of video blogging providing a great way of getting on-ground information and insights into the lives of the Iraqi people during the war where media coverage is restricted.

It is another mobilised way of broadcasting interviews, reviews and personal experiences- such as a tour of a musician or politician. 

And now that mobile phones with video capability become cheaper, it means the average person can produce their own video blog and chase their own stories.  

I myself have posted my third year journalism video story on Vibewire.net, a site I normally write for.