I remember trying out video blogging when I first opened my YouTube account (according to my profile that’s almost 2 years ago… March 6, 2006). Anyway, I remember I had to pretty much give up on it, mostly because of my technical limitations at the time… My old crappy camera from back then could only take like 15-20 seconds of video.
I wish I had that first video I made still.. But in my embarrasment over it, I deleted it from my YouTube account *and* my Blog. Haha. But anyway, I remember those days were pretty good.. before YouTube exploded, and people were watching stuff… just cause. I remember one person leaving me a nice comment, saying how amused he was (no, he wasn’t laughing at me.. like in a bad way) that I could only take 20 second snippets.
Yeah I think if I had started then and just kept going, I probably would have done better. Starting a video blog now is stupid hard… What with all the cute girls out there who blog about… well nothing at all… but still get all the hits.. just cause they’re cute. Hey believe me, I know… Cause I still watch their videos, even though I mostly think their videos are stupid… Now I have to resort to giving free piano lessons online to get video hits (I calculate each hit I get on my “Learn to play…” videos is a loss of at least $5 for me).. speaking of hits, I’m going to surpass 100,000 hits before the end of the month (yay!) and I’m gaining about… 1 or 2 subscribers per week. I’m hoping though that growth in subscribers and hits are exponential… you know, as you put up more videos *and* become more popular…
Anyway. My favourite of these… cute non-bloggers is redearth.. her name is Rachel aparently, and she’s just… cute hahaha. But then at least she has a story line of some sort in her videos.. Unlike my other favourite non-blogger, whose name I can never ever remember.. but yeah. she’s some japanese girl who.. basically stares into her webcam for 20 seconds or something… and gets 10,000 hits for it. Bah! But wait, I can’t complain. I’m one of those 10,000 hits. LOL!