Written on April 2nd, 2008 at 05:04 am by Darren Rowse
Why Bloggers Blog - [VIDEO MASHUP]
Last week I put out the call for video posts on the topic of ‘Why I Blog’. This is a ‘group project’ of sorts and my hope was to see bloggers experiment with producing videos all around the same topic.
The result was 36 bloggers tackling the challenge and submitting their videos. The videos exceeded my expectations with a while range of bloggers participating. We have bloggers who have just started out along side bloggers who’ve made a successful business from blogging. We have bloggers from around the world (and even one video in Spanish), bloggers young and old, male and female, human and…. dog. Some are serious, some funny, some abstract….
Some of the videos are ‘talking head’ in style, others get a little creative (and at times bizarre) - but all take up the topic and run with it.
As promised in my launch post - here they are. I hope you enjoy this mashup of voices. Thanks to each blogger who submitted a video - I hope I didn’t miss anyone!
Jamie Harrop submitted:
Leo Piccioll submitted this video (SPANISH):
Jim Kukral threw this one into the mix:
45n5 submitted:
Soultravelers3 put in a submission that was a little different:
Ian Fernando chimes in with:
Colin shares his video - a fireside chat:
Cindy Szponder adds her video into the mix:
Pixel Head shares:
Fat Lazy Guy put this very clever video together:
Spiderman…. Zac Johnson then joined in with:
Debby Banning shared her thoughts with:
Lori’s video is at:
Maddie Grant’s shared her video at:
The Story Lady chimes in with:
Bob Younce shared his video at:
Jerry Dawg’s video is at:
Syed Balkhi submitted this video:
elezend put together this video response:
Amanda Marie Roberts answered the question of why she blogs here:
Brad’s video is:
Travis Reynolds has posted his response here:
Karen put together this video:
Agent001’s video is at (I feature in this one):
Chrispian shares some thoughts in his video:
Hallsky’s goofy video is at:
Sundar Rajan GS shares this video:
Sara Ch. has made this creative video:
Mark’s submission is:
Joe Cheray tells us why he blogs:
Vic blogs because:
Robin Good shares at:
Andrew Flusche shares his video at:
Rhett Soveran shares this video:
Samuel sneaks this last one in:
Suzanna Stinnett also gets this video in at the last moment.
25 Responses to “Why Bloggers Blog - [VIDEO MASHUP]”
Shannon Lilly
April 2nd, 2008 6:29 am
Good to hear why others blog, I didnt have time to make a video but I wanted to. But I blog because I want to help others learn to blog!
esvl
April 2nd, 2008 6:45 am
Sweet. This is great.
I was so bored until I got here now.
Yep a lot of talking heads.
Its crashing my browser a bit.
Dennis
April 2nd, 2008 6:46 am
i wish i could add up in russian,… I am sure i have smething interesting to say….
an idea to you, Darren: devote more time to video posts, optimaze them and add titles for the deaf (research shows they do constitute a portion of the audience)..
Lori
April 2nd, 2008 6:48 am
OMG!!! I guess I didn’t realize I was gonna be seen on your blog! HOLY COW, I would have dressed up more!!!
Jerry Dawg (AKA: Jim and Rene)
April 2nd, 2008 6:56 am
Thanks again for opening up this project to entries from us dog bloggers!
And for embedding each movie instead of a mashed up playlist. What a great way for you to ensure readers stay on this page a while …
LiveCrunch 2.0
April 2nd, 2008 7:01 am
Hope you are going to do this again I missed this one :)
Darren ware there more contestants then 36 and you strip them out or only 36 bloggers really did the video ?
Zac Johnson
April 2nd, 2008 7:11 am
Awesome collection. Thanks for listing all of the videos. My favorite is definitely Jerry Dawg’s dog video blog!
Jason
April 2nd, 2008 7:26 am
Nice to be able to put faces with all these great blogs.
Darren Rowse
April 2nd, 2008 7:45 am
Lori - you look great :-)
Jerry - no problem - great vid
LiveCrunch 2.0 - these were the 36 who submitted - I included everyone.
Jason - yes that’s why I loved this too - so many of those videos are from people who I read the comments of every day so it was good to get voice/faces to put with names.
igizmore
April 2nd, 2008 9:57 am
i blog coz i am bored …
Chris Peters
April 2nd, 2008 10:36 am
Darren,
Awesome collection. Once again, you’ve put together something great.
I have been away for a while and I’m glad to see you’re still doing a fantastic job. Keep up toe good work.
I’m running my own IT company now. Understanding social networking and blogging makes quite a difference revenue wise.
Thank you for your daily effort and inspiration.
Kind regards,
Chris Peters
Nick
April 2nd, 2008 10:40 am
Darren,
Great set of videos there. Especially liked Jim’s, Mark’s and Vic’s.
chrispian
April 2nd, 2008 10:49 am
This was a lot of fun. I dig the video format and just have to feel my way around to see if it’s something I want to keep doing. That, and find a way to do something creative. Very fun though though, I’m glad you put this together.
Hailsky
April 2nd, 2008 12:18 pm
Thank you for saying mine was goofy..thats what I was going for
Mr.Gadget
April 2nd, 2008 1:19 pm
Firefox isn’t crying but thanks for putting this together Darren.
Fat Lazy Guy
April 2nd, 2008 1:22 pm
This was just awesomefunstuff. Thanks again for hosting this, Darren.
Rhett Soveran - Epiblogger
April 2nd, 2008 3:51 pm
Thanks for the opportunity. I had fun doing it and I appreciate you giving us some face time. Great to see everyones videos and click through everyones blogs.
Joe Cheray
April 2nd, 2008 3:56 pm
MMM Darren I am a woman lol. Can you please correct that thank you.
Joe Cheray
April 2nd, 2008 3:57 pm
BTW thank you for this great project it was fun to do.
Syed Balkhi
April 2nd, 2008 11:51 pm
Thanks Darren for getting the video up. Ofcourse my favorite one is the dog one out of all.
Debby Banning
April 2nd, 2008 11:52 pm
Thanks Darren for posting my video. I really enjoyed putting it together. Are you going to do video mashups weekly, monthly?
Jen-o-topia in TN
April 3rd, 2008 2:06 am
Oh, I didn’t have time to finish mine, so I hope you will do this again, Darren! These are fantastic! And it is indeed nice to put faces with the blogs. Very cool.
Prosperity Writer
April 3rd, 2008 3:05 am
now i realized what is the reason i blog, and hopefully i can stay on track
soultravelers3
April 4th, 2008 12:45 am
Thanks for this project! I enjoyed looking at each and everyone! I never would have started a blog if we had not decided to travel the world and now I am so glad that I have discovered this medium and community!
Pixel Head
April 11th, 2008 2:02 am
I am glad I was not the only one using Viddler. 33 YouTube, 2 Viddler, and one lone Google Video(can’t we call that YouTube as well?) I wonder why the submissions were predominantly Youtube?
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