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.