Susan’s Journal

It’s almost 3am, and while I’m waiting for one of my coworkers to swing a cable onto a new storage frame, I’m going to bitch.

There’s a news article in today’s Sunday New York Times about videobloggers. About a month ago, I talked to the author of the story–he contacted me, and we spoke for over half an hour about video blogs. He said he would contact me when the story was going to be published… but he never did. He did, however, contact one of my fellow vloggers, and she let me know the article was going to be published today. I hadn’t been contacted about it, because I didn’t end up being in it.

I know. Big deal, right? Well, I’m just going to sulk about it, because I was really looking forward to being in the news. I have at times almost killed myself to post one video a day–I’m almost up to 100 posts in 3 months–but sometimes I feel like no one notices. I hear people say, “Check out so-and-so’s vlog! They post every single day!” and I think to myself, so do I… does anyone notice?

News articles get published, and people discuss vlogs, and mine doesn’t get discussed… at least not within my earshot. I know I always said I didn’t care about how big my audience is… but the audience I *do* have, do they actually like my content, or do they just drudge through it because it’s there every day?

Yesterday (Saturday) I gave my first presentation on video blogs at the Apple store here in my town. There were hundreds of people in the Apple store–and I think ten listened to my presentation, which is just fine with me. Two people I was really hoping would show up didn’t–let’s just say one was because of “car trouble” (lol) and the other was the person who was supposed to video tape the presentation for me. So it didn’t get taped, which really disappointed me. Charlotte showed up, though. She is turning into such a good friend. I bet she has no idea how much that meaned to me, and how much I like having her around. Maybe I’ll just have to tell her.

Well, see, at least I can end this post on a happy note.

I like to write–really, I do. But some things have taken a priority in my life, and unfortunately this blog is one of the things that has taken a back seat. Don’t worry, though–it’s not going away–it’s just losing weight.

This coming Saturday, I’m giving a presentation on videoblogging at the Apple Store in Plano. In fact, it’s on their website and everything. This new world of putting video into a blog has really done a number on my life. I have made so many new friends, learned so many new things, and seen what things are important to me.

I videotaped Dylan’s first ever basketball practice, then I made it into a three minute short movie and posted it to my vlog–my video blog. The next morning, his grammy six hours from here was able to log onto her computer, open up FireANT, and watch that new little movie automatically. She smiled.

Video blogging can really do so much to bring this world together, and I want to teach people that. I want to teach people how important it is to keep in touch–to share your love of your family and your hobbies and your knowledge with the world.

I really hope I can get some people in the Dallas area to catch on.

So now… what about my blog? Well, sometimes there’s topics about videoblogging that I want to discuss, that I just don’t… maybe I’ll start using this blog for that a little bit. Who knows. But I’m around. Dylan’s playing basketball. Rain’s doing cheerleading. Scott’s still working. Christmas is coming. All is right in our little world.