I have become quite addicted to Michelle Malkin’s Daily Vent over at Hot Air.

For those who haven’t seen it Vent is a quick videocast featuring Malkin holding forth on the latest outrage of the day (typically Democrats). The piece looks slick, has great graphics and could compete with a lot of stuff you see on the TV news.

And Malkin makes it all work. She is spunky, vivacious and relentless. And pretty hot (in my opinion).

So now we come to the future of blogging. In the age of youtube the video blog entry may very well be the next big thing.

Think about it. First there was ordinary blog text and then people started adding pictures. I have always found a blog post that has an appropriate picture to be much more inviting than a large blob of grey text.

Add video and the experience becomes even more compelling.

Add an attractive and lively host like Malkin and the result is not only good blogging but good entertainment.

The downside is that whereas anyone could blog (assuming you had decent writing skills) not everyone has a face or a mannerism that translates into good TV (or video).

So as video blogging becomes more popular the successful video bloggers will invariably be the most telegenic. Lets hope their content is as interesting as Malkin’s. If not we will just have a new generation of talking heads, and bloggers will have proven themselves to be not so much citizen journalists but wannabe TV stars.

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