From Stuart Henshall I discovered Userplane's free AV Blogger service:
"Userplane's Audio & Video Blogger service is an easy-to-use
system allowing the creation of audio and video recorded messages for
use in blogs, websites and email.The Userplane AV Recorder
application will automatically detect your camera and microphone, and
allow you to record up to a 10 minute recording. Each recording is
streamed from the Userplane servers, and can be copy-and-pasted into
your web media."
AV Blogger (and apparently others like videoaddon.com) seem to have lowered the bar to capture, store, and broadcast video using common tools and copy/paste code snippets for websites (and their wiki and blog nephews!). This is a serious boon for distributed teams, grandparents (see Belen's picture blog), eBay sellers, and everyone in between. (Uh oh, I'm envisioning a thousand talking heads bobbing through the blogosphere... Maybe we ought to stick to text! ;)
[UPDATE:] Marc Canter points to me-tv (blog), a browser-based feed reader for video in the spirit of podcasting. This appears targeted for those creating/hosting their own video files, unlike the AV Recorder service, which takes care of everything for you (you just need a webcam).
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