Most innovative video blog in Montreal: vero-b

By Heri Jun 27th 2007 in Design

I decided to close the polls it when it gets 50 votes or after 5 days. The first poll about innovative use of video in blogging received 52 votes this morning, so here are the results:

vero-b (19 votes)
yulbuzz (17 votes)
galacticast (8 votes)
zecanada (7 votes)
dailywom.tv (1 votes)

Congratulations then to vero-b. 3 people voted for her yesterday morning, until she made a post on her blog. She describes her video blog as: “Vidéoblogue montréalais, axé sur de simples tranches de vie, le quotidien, les amis. Je parle musique à l’occasion. (Depuis mars 2006)” which should be translated to “Montreal video blog, focused on simple moments of life, daily life, and friends. I talk about music sometimes. (since march 2006)”. For me, the innovation in her blog comes from its originality and appropriation of technology. Most people would usually shoot in a studio with classic interviews/screenshots. For me this is citizen reporting 2.0 – Forgive the buzzword, but I haven’t found a better name yet.

2 sample clips below from one of her post:

Thanks everyone for participating! and remember, this is just a poll.

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Comments

Véro.b June 27, 2007

Was it cheating to put a link to the poll on my blog ? Oups! ;)

Anyhow, the most important thing for me in videoblogging is that I can show what I feel like showing, when I feel like showing it, in any form (with or without editing, for instance), and without forcing people to watch it. There are only a few constraints with this media.

To each his own. ;)

Merci pour le divertissement Heri!

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Ann June 28, 2007

This is a fascinating post! It could not have been expressed better.

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Zelaurent June 28, 2007

Véro-B mérite bien cette première place. Ses vidéos sont très rafraichissantes. J’attends à chaque fois ses nouvelles aventures.

Montréal est dans la place !

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Heri June 28, 2007

zelaurent: je pensais que yulbizz était mieux connu et allait avoir plus de votes.

vero.b: no it’s not cheating.
à propos de la vidéo, je ne comprends pas parce qu’avec la photo ou l’écriture, on a les mêmes libertés non… d’écrire ce que l’on veut, de mettre des effets ou pas. etc… mais je ne comprends pas surement parce que t’es allé bcp plus loin que tous les autres video-bloggeurs.

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Christian Aubry June 28, 2007

@heri : don’t mix Yulbuzz and Yulbiz! It could really trigate a virtual earthquake :)

Congrats to Vero who won the race in the last mile. Her vids are very personal and spontaneous. In that (2.0) sense, they are indeed more innovative than ours.

Anyway, we are all doing our best to have fun and serve our communities. So thank you for highlighting all this very demanding work.

C.A.

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Heri June 28, 2007

chirstian aubry: it’s a lapsus. but well, it’s the same people who are participating and do yulbuzz/biz… ok i am kidding.

I think the yulbuzz videos have their own touch and personality and very innovative. i like seeing people doing different things in Montreal.

Bon courage pour yulbuzz et continuez! <– pareil pour vero-b aussi

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