Blogs and vogs may be the new community media

Lee Bryant has pulled together highlights from the blogtalk 2 conference in Vienna, including some fascinating ideas on how text, audio, video blogs (vogs or vlogs?) may evolve into a new form of community media. There are some useful tips and links, but discussion rather confirms my experience that putting together multimedia for a blog is time consuming.
One method is using SMIL - Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language - which is a bit like using html to mark up web pages. There are some Windows editors, but not as far as I can see anything for Mac OSX. I'm attracted by the scope for doing slide shows with added captions and audio, now possible using Flash-based programmes like SWF 'n Slide as something quicker and easier. I can see some events on the horizon where this could be a useful additional reporting method, which seems like a good excuse to spend some time experimenting. More later.
See also Ranting and reporting from WSIS