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<h3>Cool sites for Video Blogging</h3>
 
 
 Youtube <a href="http://www.youtube.com/">www.youtube.com</a> 
 Besides 
being one of the most popular video blogging web sites,Youtube is one 
of the oldest of its kind.Founded in 2005,this web site provides a free 
platform that facilitates the sharing of user-created videos.Once you 
are registered with the site you become a member and can upload your 
videos in MPEG,AVI or MOV format.You can even upload MPEG4(DivX or 
XviD-encoded video clips) for higher video quality.After recording 
movies using your camcorder,digital still camera (using the movie mode) 
or your video-capable cell phone,you can use one of several free tools 
to convert your video to any of the above formats before uploading 
them.Members also have access to other facilities including the ability 
to edit posts to their videos and remove them later if they wish to.The 
web site also lets you tag your videos,which makes it easier to search 
and locate videos of specific content and subject.To protect 
privacy,uploaded videos can be set to be private or public,thus 
restricting viewing access.Another cool feature is the ability to 
directly upload videos from mobile devices like PDAs and cell phones 
using its nifty Mobile Upload option in conjuction with the MMS 
capability of your phone. 
 For 
first-time users,the site includes a comprehensive help section that 
describe the web site's capabilities along with answers to 
frequently-asked questions regarding posting and managing video 
posts.For both members and guests of the site,you can even link its 
hosted videos to other web sites by embedded them directly into the web 
page. 
 Metacafe <a href="http://www.metacafe.com/">www.metacafe.com</a> 
 Another 
web site offering similar capabilities to that of Youtube is 
Metacafe.It serves as a video sharing platform,allowing users to post 
their video clips.Founded in Israel,this site has over 20 million 
unique visitors Watching over 400 million video streams each month.Here 
too,after a free registration you can proceed to upload your own 
videos.The video quality standards used on Metacafe are of a noticeably 
higher quality than that used on other video sharing platforms such as 
Youtube.To be able to upload videos,a 4.8 MB client application needs 
to be downloaded and installed on the client computer,after which you 
can upload content,rate clips,post user comments or share the clips 
with a friend.The application also allows you to save clips to your 
computer for office offline viewing.Besides user-posted video clips,the 
web sites also offers movie trailers,games and other fun stuff. 
 Podcasting <a href="http://www.apple.com/podcasting">www.apple.com/podcasting</a> 
 For 
all those who use iTunes as their music management and MP3 playback 
needs,you've probably already heard of podcasting.This is the term 
given to the ability to share user-created audio and video clips on 
Apple's iTunes network.Podcasts are "channels" that can be subscribed 
to through the online iTunes Music Store interface.While the term 
initially applicable to user-created audio streams,podcasts can now be 
video-based as they are primarily intended to run on Apple's video 
enabled iPods (though they can be downloaded and viewed on any 
video-capable computer or handheld device that supports the video 
standard).As regard the video standard,podcasts can only be created in 
M4V,MP4 or MOV video formats which happens to be native video export 
formats in Apple's Quicktime 7 Pro.If you have a Mac,it will be 
understandably easier to create a podcast by using a DV camera and the 
iSight software used for capturing and saving your video file.This can 
be done on a PC using the applicable software to grab video and export 
it to the supported format.Unlike the video blogging web sites 
described earlier,you cannot actually upload videos to the iTunes Music 
Store- to share podcasts,you will need to first host your video as an 
enclosure on an existing blogging service such as "Blogger" and then 
provide the RSS link on the iTunes Music Store.After this is done,it 
shows up on the iTunes Music Store listing in the podcast category.Of 
course,this is the best way to share your video clips with iPod users 
as they are synchronized with the device through the iTunes 
interface.There are numerous detailed tutorials on how to do this on 
iTunes Music Store and on other web sites. 
 Now 
that the capablity exists on the device(be it a cell phone,camcorder or 
digicam),the ability to share your videos with the world is a powerful 
capability for communication.While video blogging is still at an 
embryonic stage in the country,there are many examples of surprisingly 
popular users who partake of everything from citizen journalism to 
kitschy video clips of their daily experiences.Still,there is no 
denying the power behind this trend of any-users video sharing. 
 
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