This globetechnology.com story tells me -- and, by extension, you -- that  video blogs (vblogs) are the next big thing.

An excerpt:

Once reserved for big-budget Web portals, video is poised to change the World Wide Web of static text-and-photo pages into a full-motion medium, market watchers say.

Plummeting production and on-line distribution costs, along with easy-to-use software such as Serious Magic Inc.'s new Vlog It!, are making it easier for smaller sites to use video clips to beef up their content. Do-it-yourself video production packages are being used by businesses, and they've also spawned a new type of personal weblog called the video blog (vlog).

The growing use of video is not just a case of Web masters playing with new toys. Web publishers are noticing that video can give site traffic a serious boost.

"On-line video is getting very popular," says Duncan Rawlinson, a Vancouver resident and entrepreneur who has been publishing a video blog since 2003. His site, thelastminute.typepad.com, features standard journal-style blog text entries alongside video footage he has shot. Like most vlogs, it also acts as a conduit for circulating footage created by others. When he picked up video of the tsunami disaster in December and encouraged people to donate to the relief fund, Mr. Rawlinson was surprised by the results.

"My little blog got over 100,000 [visits] in two days," he says.