Great thread. I feel torn. I feel like only using Blip and YouTube and getting rid of a site altogether sometimes. I'm only part time vlogging, but I have the same struggles.
The big question for me seems to be "what does the new 'TV' look like?" for a while now I've got the feeling that embedded video players that move around from site to site with my content on them are really like floating TVs... I have a sense that two big things are happening. 1. Online video is going to be on bigger and bigger TVs. 2. Comments, some text and links, photos, etc. are also expected if your vlogs are 'stories' as in, it's all rich media now, or "convergence" media. Eventually people will expect all videos to have a comment section, maybe a little text with links to things mentioned, background photos, HD and tiny screen formats. CNN used to be a TV station, New York Times used to be print. Now on the Web, they are text, audio, video and photos - all in a new format with different rules then the campus radio, tv, newspaper, photojournalism, departments. So maybe for the small time, small crew, or one-person shows, it's a question of specializing to fit into a bigger convergence site eventually to make money? i.e. sell your episodes to a bigger outlet. Or focus on a niche, like episodes shot really tight only for mobile screens, then eventually get pulled into a convergence site?? Anyway, I'm more in academia now, where we're watching work, and lingo, like this: Convergence Journalism. See student-run: http://www.amherstwire.com/ The new full time jobs at universites I'm seeing who's sole job it is to re-edit, with branding, videos from around campus's different departments (journalism, film, comm) for the Web site's marketing and recruitment of prospective students, and make a Web page: I like this page's layout with the three areas and inclusive player with all the shows and big thumbs. http://www.hampshire.edu/news/multimedia.htm Also, a few universities I work with are hiring more "web 2.0 social technologists" to produce videos for their Web site from campus media, do professor profiles, student interviews, and to manage Facebook, Youtube Channels, Linked-in accounts, Twitter, etc. for all the different departments such as alumni, Web, development, sports, admissions, etc, who all need this kind of help, believe it or not!!! They try and use work-study students who know how to it, but they are not full time professionals. We are also setting up blogs for departments who are just getting to that point!