Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen | solitude.dk

During 2006 I tried, but failed. Last year I succeeded in posting more videos on my blog than Jay Dedman, the creator of the videoblogging Yahoo group. I first found Jay in May 2004 when he first started videoblogging and since then he has been pushing me to put more video on my blog. While he has been posting less and less video I have been posting more and more mostly because of the lumiere project. During 2007 I posted 55 videos and Jay made it to 37. Because it's January 1st and I have nothing better to do I broke it down month-by-month:

Despite participating in both videoblogging week (April) and navlopomo (November)—I participated in neither—he couldn't keep up. Take that! As you can see neither of us really did anything in the first months of the year. I didn't get started until the lumiere project began in late May.

In the future I will be referring to the amount of videos Jay posts January to December as the dedman index. Use it to benchmark your own videoblog. Are you above or below the dedman index in 2007?

In a recent e-mail to the videoblogging list Jay had a short sentence that reminded me of something I wanted to share. The sentence was: Storytelling and Momentshowing.

When I started all this whole videoblogging stuff back in May I critized Jay for trying to separate his momentshowing from storytelling. I still think that Jay's concept of momentshowing is just a form of storytelling. At first I rejected the idea of momentshowing completely in my mind, but in July Jay posted a video named “VIDEOBLOG #16: Looking at things…” This video made me get the momentshowing as a subset of storytelling. It's not a new media revolution, it doesn't integrates hypermediality in it's structure. It's just a really good story. It's only a traditional approach to the video media, but it's a very amazing narrative.

Since May this is the only video entry I've gone back to many times to watch over and over. I would be sad if it just got lost in an RSS feed on someone's tv. I would elaborate more on why this is such a great narrative, but the video has a surprise ending so it would be like revealing the identity of Keyser Soze to someone who hasn't seen The Usual Suspects. Just go download the video.

This entry is just a reminder to myself that while speaking about and experimenting with this fantastic new hypervideo it's important to remember how to do traditional video. Must do good storytelling.