Among those of us in the information underground (what, did you think like Al Gore that this was a highway?) the NYTimes ranks just above the National Enquirer in terms of technology coverage. The New York Times is quite often late to the game if it bothers to arrive at all. So you’ll understand the chuckle we all had when we saw this story on video blogging:

After blogging came photo blogging and then, suddenly last year, video blogging. Video bloggers, also known as vloggers, are people who regularly post videos on the Internet, creating primitive shows for anyone who cares to watch. Some vlogs are cooking shows, some are minidocumentaries, some are mock news programs and some are almost art films.

At this rate it will only take the New York Times about another decade to realize television is dying. In the meantime we enjoy their use of the term “vlogging” which is so last week. The new hip term kids are using these days is “vodcasts” (for video-on-demand) which for the first time is a slang that halfway makes sense. Remember folks, you heard it here first. Next year when the NYT does a front-page article on the “new” trend of vodcasting you’ll smile that smug smile of self-satisfaction.