Check Out Ze Frank’s The Show
The best video blog I’ve seen is The Show, which is produced every weekday by Ze Frank, a designer/performance artist who gained Internet fame a few years back with the Flash piece, How to Dance Properly. The Show is a weird blend of news commentary, personal observations and bathroom humor. I think it’s pretty fantastic and hilarious.
The Show also has some lessons to teach in how to use technology to build a community of users:
- A few episodes of The Show have been written entirely by viewers using a wiki, and then faithfully performed by Ze.
- Ze plays an ongoing chess match with viewers during his shows. Viewers use a wiki to discuss and reach consensus on their next move in the match.
- Ze launched an earth sandwich challenge and an ugly MySpace design contest to encourage participation by viewers (not going to try to explain here).
Anyway, The Show is worth checking out and is a great example of the kind of cool things people are doing with video blogs these days.