Vlogging (video + blogging)

[Mark A. Mandel]

Michael Quinion refers us to his September article on this word at
http://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-vlo1.htm

That article also contains the following paragraph:
   >>>>>
 An extension of blogging is to collect, display and store all types of
digital information about one's life in a single place for one's family and
friends to access. Such a collection has been called a lifelog, though
trendwatching.com recently dubbed it life caching. One pundit sourly
remarked that it was an excellent way of proving to everyone how boring
one's life really is.
 <<<<<

Such a hobby, or obsession, was predicted/described by Sir Arthur C. Clarke
in his SF novel _Imperial Earth_, set about 300 or 400 years in the future
if memory serves. Its practitioners wear miniaturized apparatus that
automatically makes a video log of everything they do. I think they were
called "tapeworms" (surely an anachronistic label!).

-- Mark A. Mandel
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