Publishing video on a Website vs a Blog

In the videoblog discussion group, Josh Kinsberg said what I've always wanted to say about why videoblogging is so cool.
So I'll let him say it:

You don't have to be a blogger to publish video on the web, but weblogs do make the web part a lot easier. They provide a system for relatively easy publishing of content. Each entry has an individual place on the web with a permalink. Archives are handled nicely for you--entries are timestamped and have other metadata that is useful for categorizing you entries. There are other handy built-in features, should you opt to use them, such as comments, trackbacks, and pings. And the big thing for me is RSS to ease distribution of content.

Of course, you can simply publish video on a website that is not a
blog, but your website can quickly get out of hand if you aren't good
at maintaining it.
It will be hard to browse and search, and ultimately it will be harder for users
(let alone search engines) to find your videos.
There is a lot of great video scattered all over the web now --
just try and find it.
This fact of the web is what makes WebJay so compelling to me.
It attempts to address the "find it" problem by cultivating a community of people who do just that --
they find things, point to them, and organize them in playlists.
They're pre-surfing the web for you --
which is what many bloggers do when they simply point to a link and add commentary.

So, to me, its not that blogging adds much to the video --
although some people try to make their videoblogs like personal journals --
but it's that it provides an easy system for regular publishing, organizing, archiving, and distribution of content.
Content, of course, can be anything.

Correct.
I dont want to fuck around with HTML.
Just let me pour it into the web.

Comments

[Susan]

Searchable. That's my big thing. I want keywords--and you can't really have keyword search on just a video link--but with a few sentences typed in about a vlog post, you can. And content can indeed, and will, be anything.

[Dexter Zaf]

Go with the platform you are comfortable working with.

I don't buy about all these Blog vs website debates. Blog is just another type of website/web pages with URL, HTML code,CSS, Javascript and server-side script the use HTTP protocol. There are few types of websites. E-commerce,Brochure,Portal, Journal or blog and forum...Website can have a blog a forum a link directory, it could be static or dynamic.

Should the question be Blog design vs Traditional website design?