To implement one of my ideas (about saving the world), I decided I want to learn how to videoblog (or vblog). Surely, my first step was to go to Google and Technorati to see what I can find about how to vblog. It has been an interesting journey. I thought I would share what I found with you.

The next post has a distilled list of resources I found useful or interesting. If you think I missed something, please add comments to the post. Also, dear vbloggers, who I missed or did not include, please add links to your blogs in the comments section. I did not mean to create a vblog directory here (there are those), rather to provide list of web resources available to a vblog newbie.

To simplify, to produce a vblog one needs:

• To make a video (s) and have a blog to post videos to,
• To compress if big, upload to some video hosting site,
• To embed the video in his/her blog,
• If there are many videos, or if videos are extremely popular, make sure the server can sustain the load.

Yes, that was oversimplified.

To add a few more (important) one needs:

• to have equipment — quality (and price) of equipment can be in direct proportion to quality of videos,
• to have SW to edit video (cut pieces, add music, text) and compress it,
• to learn and to practice how to make videos –
  while there is some art to the video creation, there are rules that, if followed or at least if understood, can help one a higher quality video,
• To decide what blog SW to use (wordpress vs typad vs blogger vs…),
• To be able (have an understanding of) to chose the right server / hosting service — assuming that traffic will be overwhelming (yup, that is a big assumption, still…).

So here is a list of resources I found useful and interesting.