Significance

• Videoblogs cab deliver richer content than sites using just text and still images. It positions vlogs in a special class.
• Video allows to express a personmore naturally and with greater facility than static, text-based sites.
• As video software and hardware capabilities advance, video enthusiasts web designer could have significant influence on web site design and development for instructional purposes.
• Videoblogging is an extension of the self-publishing phenomenon exemplified by blogging.
• Videoblogging has the potential to expand communication options and individual expression with personal video posts. Videoblog content bypasses traditional media distributors, delivering video to aggregation clients and web sites.
• Video logging may also gain significance because of the media literacy of today’s students.

Shortcomings

The greatest shortcomings to videoblogging are :-

• Resources required to capture, store, and distribute video.
• A significant investment of time and money may still be required.
• Internet-based video distribution has extensive space and bandwidth requirements: the larger the video files, the greater the network demand and download time.
• Videoblogging must eventually address issues of indexing, storage, and retrieval.
• Video files need metadata for users to be able to access archival material, and the consistency with which metadata are applied will affect how useful a videoblog will be to audiences.