About Real People Network

Real People Network is a videoblog, or vlog — simply, a weblog containing video.

Launched by JD Lasica, Real People is open to other vloggers posting here. Here are our guidelines:

• Meaning: We declare war on the vacuousness of celebrity culture. We're here to tell the stories of real people.

• Quality: We're aiming for high-quality video that can be viewed on several platforms: portable video players (Apple's video iPod, Creative Labs' Zen, Archos players, PSP, and others), cell phones, computer screens and television.

• Experimentation: We want to push the boundaries of vlogging and convergence, so we'll be experimenting with features such as BitTorrent file-sharing of video outtakes and high-quality screenshots taken from featured videos.

• Community: We want this to be an interactive experience, and so we invite comments, trackbacks and guest vlogging, and we'll point to other vlogs frequently.

• Remixing: Video is not just for watching — it should allow for quoting and reauthoring. We encourage you to remix, reinterpret or revlog any of these videos.

• Sweeter codecs: We think the H.264 codec rocks.

We celebrate all kinds of video blogs, from arty to punk, from experimental to political. Here, we'll be doing some journalism, some documentary stuff, some moblogging, but mostly we'll be keeping it real.

Meantime, we're working at Ourmedia and Node101 with creating a Learning Center to make the creation and sharing of grassroots video easy for everyone.