This Is This

No, hang on. If video killed the radio star, then who did the blogging star kill? And did video then also kill the blogging star, after serving time for his first murder? Or maybe the video guy and the blogging star are actually the same person, joining forces against the threat of personal video recorders?

Whatever, but Kathryn asks:

Well hello! I like the video blogging, not boring at all. Perhaps you should do the book readings via video? Or do you not do that anymore…?

I didn’t have a post today, so thank you for your question.

The answer is that I could do it, but not sure how interesting that would be. I don’t want to be the reading dork. Also, how much interest is there is someone looking at someone reading something written down from a book?

Also, technically, the book reading breaches copyright, and I think putting it on YouTube wouldn’t be cool, because it’s seen by a lot more people and that means broadcasting someone else’s work on a much bigger scale than this. The Sunday video was played 64 times so far, which is a lot of traffic relative to hits on this website.

While I was sticking to audio posts the focus was more on the page here and I would include links to buy the book and everything (without taking a referral free from Amazon, because I don’t really feel entitled to mooch). The video post kind of makes me the centre of attention on a bigger scale and that’s not fair on the original author.

Also, audio posts were getting about 5 or 6 plays in total, which is the literary equivalent of peanuts, and while I’m not going for popularity, I can spend more time writing, which seems to be a better use of time.

But if the video posts work, it’s a fun way to tell a story of my own and I might do some more of those.

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