Watch me@Vlog

Like another web trend, podcasts, where people can subscribe to largely home-brewed audio programs, people can sign up to receive regular video downloads.
"We���re going from being media consumers to media makers. We���re learning how to do that,"said Chuck Olsen, a documentary filmmaker and video blogger in Minnesota. Anyone can "create media and have a distribution outlet for it that bypasses television and mainstream media,"he added."It���s like slightly curated cable-access."
Many of the vlogs have a home-grown, experimental feel. People capture moments in their everyday lives. Some post cooking lessons, short films or videos of local festivals or family events like graduations. Politicians are also wading in the video-blogging waters. North Carolina Sen John Edwards is receiving and responding to questions using video. Boston City Councillor John Tobin has a video blog as well.
Clint Sharp, a vlogger who publishes a weekly tech show, said "the potential for everyone to self-publish has the ability to revolutionise the world"by sharing video across cultures and countries.
It will also help those interested in exploring niche subjects ignored by traditional media, Sharp said.
Some vlog content is even making the leap to television. Akimbo offers its subscribers the ability to subscribe to several vlogs, in addition to its other video-on-demand programs.
Su Li Walker, an analyst with the Yankee Group, said that like blogs, which have become an extension of traditional media, video blogs will be a supplement to traditional broadcasting.
Though people have experimented with video blogs for a number of years, the medium has boomed this year. Vloggers gathered in January for the first vloggercon, and this past weekend vloggers gathered in New York, Minneapolis and Los Angeles for vloggercue, a summer meeting.
The vlogging community is still pretty small compared to the blogosphere. Many of the vloggers share tips and network in videoblogging groups.
Vlogging is still in its early stages, attracting tech-savvy types who are comfortable experimenting with video online, according to the Yankee Group���s Walker.
Vloggers want to get as many people as possible involved.
Unlike podcasting, though, vlogging doesn���t have any wildly popular device like the iPod to help fuel the vlogging trend - yet.
Copyright issues are also popping up as more and more people get into vlogging. Vloggers sometimes use copyright music in their vlogs, but they are unclear about its legaliy.