Thanks to the great folks at the Media Bloggers Association, I’m back in the business of serving up tsunami amateur home videos. As some of you know, late last week I was forced to remove the tsunami videos I was hosting due to a rather onerous bandwidth overage
charge of $1,000. Because of problems like mine the MBA recently announced the Tsunami Video Hosting Initiative, a public service offered in response to concerns over bandwidth issues facing bloggers providing a public service by offering video of the tsunami to the world.
These people deserve our thanks. Please head on over to their site and let them know that they’re doing a great job!
Blogs get hotter, video blogs get cooler
The Wall Street Journal Online for January 2 and 3, 2005 ran two stories on blogging. The first story, sourced from the Associated Press, reported on the surge in blog readership in 2004 as based on a Pew Internet and American Life Project study on “T…