Secrets of Videoblogging

August 15, 2006
A picture is worth 1000 words, so video logs (vlogs) and photo blogs unsurprisingly follow hard on the heels of more familiar textual blogs. Create Your Own Photo Blog and Secrets of Videoblogging are full-color guides for beginners that highlight examples before progressing to how-to information. A content-packed yet concise overview, Secrets of Videoblogging moves from finding your own style to creating feeds, tagging content, and doing mashups. Step-by-step instructions and clear screen shots illustrate the easiest and cheapest ways to shoot, edit, and post a vlog. Clear, enthusiastic, and helpful; highly recommended. For beginners, Create Your Own Photo Blog explains photo blogging with common services like Photobucket, Flickr, and Movable Type. Readers are treated to a free month's hosting from (and plugs for) the author's preferred web host. The book's companion web site (createyourownphotoblog.com) contains sample templates and additional how-tos and clarifications. Highlights include lovely photography and examples throughout, plus helpful tips for beginning photographers. A useful addition, Flickr Hacks also includes information on posting Flickr photos to blogs -plus much, much more. Hacks range from Flickr basics such as sharing your own photos and viewing others' (including via RSS and finding pictures with Creative Commons licensing for reuse) to various scripts using the Flickr API to mashing up photos. Given Flickr's popularity, all public libraries should consider adding.

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