I don’t know how many years I’ve been saying that I want to vlog, but I never quite knew what to vlog about. Over the last few weeks, though, I’ve come to a bit of a realisation. It might sound a bit odd, but I think it accurately represents things.
Now, the one thing that just about all of the “episodes” I have watched on YouTube have talked about is how important it is to know your niche and make sure that you only do videos that relate to the niche. The problem has been that I didn’t have a niche.
You’ll notice that I used the past tense there. Because, quietly, I think I have clicked what my niche is, and it can pretty much be summed up in one word;
Curiosity.
I’m curious about things. If I see a hole being dug in the road, I try to find out why. If there is an event going on, can I find out about it? I look at plants, what insects can I see on it, what plant is it, and will my app recognise it. What is happening in the sky? Is there a particular night when it is worth spending some time stargazing? What is happening to the shingle beach in Stokes Bay? How did the people who gathered the information for the Domesday Book know how to be consistent across the country? How did society begin? I’ll stop there; I think you get the idea that my niche is fairly broad.
The Thing is, you see, any and all of those subjects written about can be the subject of a vlog. It seems that I have some topics that I can write and vlog about. Oh, there is one more topic that could be in the list above but isn’t, and it’s all about compost bins. It’s a bit of a sore subject, it’s a bit of a bone of contention between Elayne and I, I’ve started treating the compost bins as a bit of a home science project, and have produced three vlogs on the subject. They are very professionally produced (oh, the sarcasm runs deep here), They are hardly BBC productions, but they’re real and I am learning something with each one. They can be found on my YouTube channel:
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