Back in August, I video blogged the American Idol Season 8 Auditions right here in Kansas City.  Last night on Fox, American Idol aired it’s first episode for the new season and I’ve noticed in the past week that traffic to my photos and video blog have sparked since the show has started.

What’s interesting to notice is a concept in motion that Chris Anderson from Wired published in October of 2004, that is “the long tail”. While my video blogs may not be a direct representation of his concept — it is in the sense of a content niche long tail. This “long tail” concept may sound like just jibber, jaber — so to make sense of it read this white paper by Chris you need to, it’s worth your time.

Meanwhile, you can relive the video blog I published last year.  I’m curious myself if anyone I shot in the video will make it through to any of the later rounds!  Guess we’ll just have to wait and see…

My audio blog of the event:

This past Friday, American Idol rolled into Kansas City to hold round one auditions for Season 8. Of course, I grabbed my camera and video blogged the craziness. It was great — I really met a lot of cool people in the couple hours I walked around. One thing I found surprising, the majority of people were practically fighting to sing for the camera …and they were actually all pretty good! Check out my audio blog on Utterz and my video blog below. P.s. You’ll be crackin’ up when you meet “Mr. Banana Man”, a memorable character for sure. Enjoy!

My audio blog of the event: