I got this idea after seeing some projects like this and realizing I really dislike them. I am not talking here only about blogs that “borrow” content from youtube since I don’t waste too much time on such things. I am also referring here to blog posts created by the author in a video form. As cool as it might this sound I am still not convinced I would want to create such a project. Here are some reasons:

1. I don’t stay too much in them myself. I don’t know why I really don’t like video blogs or even podcasts. I agree that many of them are of excellent quality and really interesting, it’s just .. I don’t like watching or listening to the information. I assume there are others who are as “weird” as I am, so this already makes me think twice about having a video blog.

2. It’s possible that my videos cannot be seen .. I have some restrictions at work for instance when it comes to flash and other plugins. They are not installed and I cannot install them since we don’t have admin priviledges. This situation is not singular, it might also leave some of my visitors in front of a video they cannot watch.

3. The text is always easier to “scan”. I don’t know how others use a site, but I “scan” the content. And I look in it for the things that I am interested in, the paragraphs that really give me the information I need. This is how I can see if it’s really worth reading in the end, if not, I am gone. A text can be read like this and I can convince my reader in just seconds that I really know what I am talking about.

4. My texts are SEO friendly. I have traffic from google and other search engines. They pick any word I write and give me visitors. I think it’s a tad harder with a video to do the same thing, unless you’re rewriting the entire text in a title tag or an alt tag.

5. I am not that beautiful. .. well, it’s true. I am not such a beautiful woman to attract my visitors with my looks, so I have to rely on my texts only.

These would be my 5 reasons for not creating a video blog. Maybe in some months/years. Here is a ‘trend’ I am not thinking about, maybe a missed opportunity, but it is really not what I want from a blog.