Dogvlogging
"Vlog" has got to be one of the most singularly hideous words in the English language. This is a significant achievement for a phrase that has only been around since about 2001. This word, along with its only-slightly-less-awful cousin "vodcast," represents an unfortunate impulse in our nation's media to repeat and proliferate a phrase it percieves as appealing to a younger demographic, no matter how banal and ridiculous that phrase may be. It's the same vein of thinking that has resulted in the annointment of every Generation following "X" with the subsequent letter in the alphabet -- to say nothing about the unfortunate naming of "Generation X" itself -- and of the now-widespread use of such breathtakingly stupid gangsta rap prhases as "bling-bling" in everyday language. What's wrong with phrases like "video blogging" or "video podcasting?" Nothing, except that some lazy idiot in the media thought "vlogging" and "vodcasting" sounded trendier and ran with them, influencing thousands of other lazy idiots in the media to do the same. One could almost imagine the media to be full of such lazy idiots. One could almost imagine.Anyway, why the screed? Because THIS is my first-ever VLOG ENTRY! That's right! Sunday was my dog Ozzie's last day of agility class at the San Francisco SPCA, so I had Christy take the video camera along. When I got home I edited the footage into a goofy-ass music video that you can check out by clicking on the photo below (you can also right click the photo and hit "Download linked file as..." to save it to your computer). So will this be the first of many thrilling VLOG entries?* Gosh, will I have to start calling this thing The Rocketdog VLOG?!?** Only time will tell, my friends, only time will tell!
*doubtful
**no
Labels: dog stuff, metablogging, video blogging
posted by nick @ 5:48 PM
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