Here’s yet another example of using weblog technology to the fullest: video blogger Trey Jackson interviewed former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. One of the videos he’s offering shows Gingrich on the phone while being interviewed by Bill O’Reilly. Read the post and see the videos HERE.
Increasingly, video bloggers are offering some of the most interesting and must-view sites on the Internet. So far it’s been largely using excerpts from televised shows. Packaging those takes skill because it entails offering just the right amount to the website visitor and making sure it’s high quality. Original video blogging opens up a new frontier.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.