I was wrong: you can watch Windows Media video at higher-than-normal speed (1.4x) (thanks Jonathan!). The pitch isn't shifted down, but it's perfectly comprehensible. So I d/l'ed a couple Channel 9 videos, more to judge the general premise of videoblogging than to react to the content in particular. Here's what I noticed:
- A video link is a slow link
- The video clips seem to generally to be more than a minute in length, while blog entries are often read in 20-30 seconds. (I write long blog entries, but that's because I think with my fingers and don't edit them.)
The slow link characteristic and the pithy item desire seem to be in contrast. A 5-second delay is one thing with a 2-minute clip, but a 5-second delay for a 20-second snippet seems untenable.
Hmm... still, maybe I'll wire up my Webcam and try videoblogging. On the other hand, I'd have to shave...