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My Wife on Camera, Turning Vlogs into Blogs, and Remembering Adam the Woo

By Zonk 3 min read

Summary

This is one of my sit-at-the-desk catch-up videos, and I’ve got a lot to share. First up, I built an auto-generated blog that turns the videos on this channel into blog entries. I’m not interested in chasing the YouTube algorithm or reworking my thumbnails. This channel is a brain dump, mostly for me, my friends and my family. But I still want people to find it, like someone searching for what it’s like to be the husband of a wife with breast cancer. Google and YouTube are the two biggest search engines, so my goal was to bring traditional search traffic to my vlog without having to manage a blog on the side.

I walk through how it works. It checks my channel’s RSS feed twice a day, grabs the description and transcript of any new video, and sends them to an AI model with my prompt. The result is a Hugo markdown post with a summary, key points and tags, with the video embedded at the top. It doesn’t always sound like me (I’d never end a sentence with “and boy do we have a story to tell”), so I’m upfront that these posts are auto-generated. I’d love to open source it for other new vloggers.

I also talk about getting my wife Rachel on camera at the Foo Fighters concert. She won the tickets through KROQ, and I’m so proud of how she fought cancer. I’d love for her to leave that legacy for our kids and grandkids. Then I get into my plans for a separate AI YouTube channel, maybe with a podcast, and the vloggers who inspire me. That includes Adam the Woo, who passed away just before Christmas and always said not to wait to be creative, plus Brickey and the competitive eater Katina Eats Kilos.

Key Points

  • I built a hands-off system that turns my YouTube videos into searchable blog posts, so I can focus on making videos instead of managing a site.
  • The blog is auto-generated with AI from my transcript and description, and I label it as such because transparency matters to me.
  • My wife Rachel held the camera and engaged with the audience at the Foo Fighters concert, and I got a commitment from her to do more.
  • I’m planning a separate AI-focused YouTube channel, and maybe a podcast, to talk about AI’s creative, productivity and societal impact.
  • Adam the Woo’s message to not wait to be creative is a big reason I’m putting this channel out there, and I want to spotlight other creators who inspire me.

This post was automatically generated from my YouTube video. Watch above or view directly on YouTube.

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