Introduction

This is a book about a new phenomena, called audio and video blogging. If you’re already familiar with blogs, then you know how significantly they’ve changed the face of online communication. What you may not know is how the mere addition of audio and video attachments to blogs has started another media revolution.

Streaming media, online audio and video consumption, is as old as the net itself. But while Internet radio has made some strong inroads, online video has never seriously challenged television—until now.

The Internet vs. TV

The Internet has spent years trying to be more like TV. Video compressors were optimized in a vain attempt to get streaming video to look as good as a VHS tape. Various hardware devices have been built ...

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