In last Friday’s FilmCouch, Paul and I spent some time talking about Internet video, particularly the excellent web show by Rob Parrish, Next to Heaven. We didn’t have time to mention it in the show, but I wanted to highlight another innovative use of self-published web video, (what I believe to be) the only indy web reality show, UrbanHonking’s Ultimate Blogger. Blogging challenges were issued in video segments, complete with reality TV staples like hard-won immunity against being “voted off the Internet.” Ultimate Blogger is essentially an elaborate art project connecting disparate groups of hipsters who are finding innovative ways to use blogging as a creative medium.

Before I go on I should mention that I was a contestant in Ultimate Blogger 3, as a member of team G-RAD, which represented G-RAD.org, a community site/blog-hub based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. G-RAD has been influenced in many ways by UrbanHonking. I also have to mention that we won, which is very exciting to me.

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