vlogs — if you read any further don't blame me if you don't get anything done today

Fair warning.

A vlog is a video blog.

My nonpareil technical engineer told me a few weeks ago that I could start up bookofjoeTV anytime I wanted, now that vlogs are surfacing from beneath the virtual tar pit.

Ha.

He's the poster boy for Samuel Johnson's memorable remark about second marriages, transposed to me and anything internet–related: "They represent the triumph of hope over experience."

I'm not even close to being able to get bookofjoeTV up and running.

You'll know when it happens, trust me: one day you'll stop by for your fix and there it will be. But enough about me.

mefeedia.org bills itself as "the world's first video aggregator."

Reminds me of my own idiotic styling of myself as "the world's only blogging anesthesiologist." But I digress.

Peter Van Dijck, co–founder of mefeedia.org, told the Wall Street Journal's Becky Bright in a story published Monday that there are currently more than 800 vlogs and the number is growing daily.

mefeedia alone has over 700 registered vlogs at present, encompassing nearly 30,000 individual videos.

Among the most popular vlogs is Amanda Congdon's rocketboom.com, which gets between 30,000 and 40,000 hits a day, according to Van Dijck.

Another aggregator is dvblog.org, curated by a group of artists.