It didn’t take long for people to look at the increasing number of resources for free online video publishing and figure out how to use them to produce their own video-based weblogs. The good news is that it can be done and (if you have the right equipment and a broadband connection) it won’t cost you anything. The bad news is that as the tutorial makes clear it still involves jumping through a lot of hoops to make it all work. Don’t expect to see any video blogging from me any time soon!

Still, it’s interesting and once it gets made easy (perhaps Vimeo will enable this?) it might be an important direction blogging goes in. I just hope it doesn’t encourage teen blogs to head further towards self-produced porn…

In related news, the Open Media Network recently launched. It is designed to provide an easy way for users to find and download video both amateur and professional online. It won’t help you do the initial publishing but it will help you if you want to distribute something. Unfortunately for me the initial software is Windows-only, though it will be available on Mac and Linux later.

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I thought SixApart’s framing of what weblogging ‘is’ was interesting (thanks Lilia for pointing to it). They offer as examples one weblog - dotmoms - that is clearly personal but which describes itself as being about the writing rather than about self expression. The other two example blogs are about sharing knowledge rather than sharing personal experience. Of course Typepad is ‘high end’ blog software so it is not surprising to see it trying to define blogging as knowledge management in this way. It is arguably attempting (consciously or unconsciously) to shift the framing of weblogging away from the ‘tainted’ image of an activity for angst-ridden teens to something used by ‘’serious people for serious purposes’.

Or perhaps I am reading too much into this?

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I just finished working through Speaking into the Air, hoping it would have something to say about the more personal forms of weblog communication. Though the book is interestingly broad in its references (Socrates, Jesus, Hegel and Marx all have their place here) it is surprisingly narrow in its definition of what communication is/should be ‘for’. His argument, (very cursorily summarised) is that instead of seeking to impose our meanings on others in communication we should communicate in ways that allow others to learn and think for themselves, respecting their difference:

The authentic representation of self or world not only is impossible, it is also never enough. Needed instead is a stoic willingness to go through the motions that will evoke the truth for others. The problem of communication is not language’s slipperiness, it is the unfixable difference between the self and the other. The challenge of communication is not to be true to our own interiority but to have mercy on others for never seeing ourselves as we do.

This is a rather instrumental/political view of the uses of communication. It doesn’t to my mind tackle the need to communicate not to make a particular impression or convey an idea but just to be heard and perhaps to help in one’s self understanding through communicative performance. He does mention Carl Rogers and other theorists of the therapeutic value of communication but only in passing. I am currently working on the assumption that this is what is going on with postings like Justin Hall’s now-famous online breakdown and other online confessional blogging. What do you think?

P.S. One fascinating thing to come out of the book - tangentially - is that in the 18th C newsletters were meant to circulate and blanks were left for people to leave additional notices. “Some postmasters in the colonial period apparently freely quoted in their newspapers from love letters and personal correspondence” (Floherty 1939 Make Way for the Mail).

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My site now has a short summary of my planned PhD research: Private Lives Lived in Public: Weblogs and Self Performance. I would be interested in what people think of it and I am particularly interested in hearing more about:

• Theories of how producers of alternative media - particularly earlier ones - benefit from being able to perform aspects of themselves hitherto denied them (Clemencia Rodr?guez is my only non-new media source so far).
• Sociological literatures on reflexive self performance (particularly autobiography) Where would be a good place to start with Judith Butler?
• Methodologically, in principle any communication is arguably a form of self performance but some are more clearly self-performative than others. For example I would argue Justin’s video below is intensely self-performative while “I ate corn flakes this morning - I like corn flakes” is less so. Would concentrating on the authors of weblogs at the ‘highly performative’ end of this continuum be a defensible research practice and if so how can I choose them in a consistent fashion?

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An MP3 recording of a session at Bloggercon III where the participants talk revealingly and sometimes movingly about what blogging means to them - a subject at the heart of my own PhD project.

For a very raw and personal video account of what blogging means to someone who has been doing it for eleven years, you can also take a look at Justin Hall’s dark night of the soul video (a 73Mb quicktime file) in January. Perhaps predictably, he gathered a lot of support but also inspired mockery.

P.S. I wish academic conferences would start providing downloadable audio files of their gatherings so those of us who can’t attend could still benefit from some of the insights there. I doubt that providing this would jeopardise the conferences themselves…

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Katelyn McKenna and John Bargh in their 1998 study - Coming out in the age of the Internet: Identity ?de-marginalization? from virtual group participation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 681-694 - were early and perceptive in noting that the Internet lets you express your own individuality (via newsgroups in their study) and find others who share that, arguably helping to support groups society deems marginal. Fine in the case of gays, ethnic minorities etc - less good in the case of neo-nazis as they point out.

This popped back into mind the other day when I came across this BBC World Service programme:

In Japan, the internet is being blamed for a spate of group suicides - usually involving the young. Since October of last year more than thirty people have killed themselves with the help of strangers that they’ve met in so-called suicide chatrooms. Our Asia correspondent, Andrew Harding, has been to Tokyo to find out more about this phenomenon.

You can hear the audio from the programme (Analysis) until Friday - I also have an MP3 of it I have archived. Basically people who are too frightened to kill themselves alone are finding “suicide buddies” to help them go through with it.

Along similar lines Pro anorexia websites and weblogs abound, where teens and others who share this unfortunate (and sometimes fatal) disorder often encourage each other to keep up the practice in the face of societal pressure. (Danah Boyd romantically defends these subcultures (at least implicitly) in her passionate defense of the LiveJournal culture).

On the other hand, as “spacewaitress” points out in this moving video clip from blogumentary.org, if you are contemplating suicide you may only feel able to say so on your blog and in that case when you post about it your friends may give you the support you need (but couldn’t ask for) to get through your problems… Similarly one of the people interviewed in Japan found just being able to talk with other people seeking suicide and sharing problems was support enough that they decided not to go through with it and they maintained a support web page instead.

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