Blogger is actually ready for videoblogging

Since 2004, we've been teaching people how to videoblog using Blogger. Just check out the tutorial at Freevlog. Blogger was super easy to use, but always frustrated us because it didn't provide a lot of the features we needed. RSS enclosures, video uploads, etc.

Now things are changing in a big way.
Eric Case recently became project manager, and he understands that people shouldn't have to go to Youtube to post video. In my opinion, blogs do a lot of things much better than social networking sites (like control the look of my page, moderate comments, gather a specific audience). Eric came to Pixelodeon and listened to what videobloggers had to say.

You can now help test video uploads and RSS enclosures on your Blogger accounts.
You must be logged in through http://draft.blogger.com
It's pretty freaking cool.

Now someone brand new can make a blog in 10 seconds, upload a video to Google video IN the post, and have an RSS feed that anyone can subscribe to in iTunes. That's what we always wanted.

Blip.tv and Wordpress.org are still the places for serious videobloggers who want complete control over their work. But this new and improved Blogger helps open the door for the newbies, especially since they've localized it in 8 different languages.

Comments

[Levois]

Since Google owns YouTube now perhaps eventually video will be downloaded to YouTube and we won't have to go there to be able to download some video.