The Interview

As I mentioned in a previous blog post, I was visited yesterday by former neighbor and current vlogger, Vern Dahnke who wanted to interview me for one of his vlog posts.

He just sent a link to the Youtube video. I've watched it and decided to post the video here.

Of course, you should subscribe to Vern's channel.

Vern the Vlogger

Thursday is normally my day to meet a few of my fellow Americans for brunch. Today, we were scheduled to meet up at Thunder Road Bar and Grill. There was a bit of a mix up on my part (which I won't go into) and so I sent word that I couldn't attend our brunch this morning.

As I said, things were a little mixed up this morning and I ended up staying at home.

As it so happened, another fellow American dropped by for a visit. His name is Vern and he had, at one time been our neighbor when we were living in an apartment in Cangmating, Sibulan. He has since moved to Valencia.

Like so many foreigners living in Philippines, Vern has his own Youtube channel and has taken to vlogging. Sometimes, it feels like you can't swing a dead cat in Dumaguete without hitting a vlogger.

Vern had dropped by today with the intention of interviewing me for his vlog. He thought I might say something of interest for someone thinking of visiting Philippines. I managed to take a few photos while he was setting up in different locations. After our talk, he headed back to Valencia to edit his videos and post the final product to his Youtube channel. He'll be sending an email with a link to the video, and of course I'll share in on this blog.

The Vloggers - Update.

After publishing my last post [The Vloggers] I sent a link to the post to all four of the vloggers mentioned in the post. Each one responded favorably, with one giving the name of another American vlogger living in Dumaguete. Bud Brown.

With a little searching, I found his older Youtube channel -Bud Brown. In a video posted to that channel, he explained that he had created another Youtube channel, Bud Brown Live in order to "monetize" his videos. The videos on both channels are entertaining - I can see why he managed to get 32K subscribers on the older channel and 6.72K subscribers on the newer one.

According to one video, he's been living in Dumaguete almost as long as I have. I'm surprised that we haven't bumped into one another, but I suppose we travel in different circles.

The Vloggers

When a friend of mine - who was himself quite the blogger in the day - remarked that blogging was dead, I wasn't sure how to respond. True, the number of blog posts I myself had published had dropped considerably, but I still had an emotional attachment to the written word and didn't want to see it disappear from the Internet.

With the coming of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, folks could express their thoughts and feelings without much need for following the rules of grammar or paying attention to proper sentence structure. It was much easier to re-post or retweet someone's dig at Obama, or Trump or whoever your particular nemesis might be.

Blogging may well have been on life-support for a few years, but a new phenomenon has put the final proverbial nail in blogging's coffin......the Youtube Vlogger.

I know of four foreign vloggers in the Dumaguete area, doing videos of life here in Philippines. Two I know personally, while I've only come across the other two on the Internet.

These four - in no particular order - are:
Dumaguete Expat
Houston And Beyond To The Philippines
Gio in the Philippines
SwissHumanity

There are times when I feel like joining 'em since I can't beat 'em. I'm giving it thought, but should I decide to connect this blog to my own vlog, I'd want to do something unique. I'm not quite there, yet.