YouTube quietly added a new feature today to its popular user-generated video site today called Quick Capture, which allows users to record video directly to YouTube from webcams plugged into their computers. This new feature eliminates steps in the process of producing video content, making it easier than ever to publish videos to the web.
Source: Arstechnica
Now this is very cool and should lead to a new boom in vlogging. Why? Well it takes out a step in the process, not a particularly difficult step true, but one that may have stopped people before. Now, unencumbered by this step, more people will vlog. Okay, the the signal to noise ratio will drop considerably but, buried in there will be some gems I'm sure. More importantly, its another step along the road to vlogging becoming mainstream in the consciousness of the population.