By Neil the Ethical Werewolf I'm with Nick Yglesias in preferring blogging over vlogging. Probably the biggest reason is that I can read a lot faster than people can talk. So vlogging is just a slower way to get the same amount of content. (It's even worse when I'm using one of these 5-year-old iMacs at work and the video is all jerky.) Maybe part of the problem is that most of the vlogging I see is by the bloggers I read. They're excellent writers, but they're not necessarily any better than anybody else at keeping an audience interested on video. Occasionally they use the fact that we can see them to do something mildly interesting -- for example, wearing an idiosyncratic hoodie -- but it's not a format that they have any special talent for.
