I’m doing a straight shootout comparison of two cool new video blogging tools – one is Vlog It! from Serious Magic, and the other, that I’m using here, is FlashVlog .

Both are very straightforward to use; Vlog It! is a PC-only app that does everything locally and then uploads a Flash file to a hosting service; whereas FlashVlog does the recording while you are hooked up to the hosting server. Vlog It! has some great newsroom-style transition and titling effects; FlashVlog is much simpler and runs on any platform – and enjoys the no-brainer simplicity that you’d expect from the same team that created FlashMeeting.

Finally, FlashVlog just works; end of story. Vlog It! nearly worked, but when was time to upload my little recorded piece to the hosting server, I got some very peculiar error messages, to the effect that ‘your computer is not connected to the Internet’. Now, I consider myself pretty good at this stuff – I’ve been doing internet audio and video for over 10 years, since the very first CU-SeeMe hit the streets, and have run any and every application on the planet, on every platform. There would appear to be a firewall problem, but in several interactions with technical support at SeriousMagic, they said: “you figure it out.” That’s the end of my relationship with SeriousMagic.

[The above is also a verbatim transcript of what I say in the vlog – I’ve recorded in two ‘segments’ just to show how easy it easy to create segments in FlashVlog].

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