Comments on: Video Comments are a Dumb Idea.

By: Andrew Deal

Andrew Deal — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:27:54 +0000

How about audio comments?

We made a system to do that at CelleCast, and although I made it to talk back to radio shows, maybe we can adapt it to plug into blogging in a productive way.

Not a plug, a real inquiry here.

By: WinExtra » Video comments - another case of "just because we can"

WinExtra » Video comments - another case of "just because we can" — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:46:30 +0000

[...] those blogs. While I might not be as extreme in the idea of video blogging or Seesmic being useless as Frederic from The Last Podcast is I do agree with him that for blog comments text is the better medium. For comments on a blog – text [...]

By: Frederic

Frederic — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:48:56 +0000

@william – I agree with you, but I think the negatives I listed in the post far outweigh the advantage of braking down the anonymity
(of course, who wouldn’t like to see more civil blog comments to become the norm?).

If nobody sees your comment, it doesn’t help that you weren’t anonymous…

By: William Tildesley

William Tildesley — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:36:20 +0000

Think of it this way, at least with video commenting you’re breaking down the anonymity barrier which allows people to say whatever they like when commenting on a blog without being named and shamed but when you appear on video I think people will think twice before saying what they were going to say in the first place.

However are geeks/nerds really going to want to video themselves? I mean most of the geeks/nerds I know are quite self self-conscious.

By: Frederic

Frederic — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:09:55 +0000

@bhc3 – sorry about the name – I must have confused the name of your site with my online friend “jeffisnotageek”

@Alan – a day of porn comments only on TechCrunch – that should do it

By: bhc3

bhc3 — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:16:55 +0000

If there was some way to give good info before clicking the video, that’d help. You know, like a text transcript of what the person says posted beside their video…

Also – thanks for the link in the story. One small thing – I’m Hutch, not Jeff.

See you in the movies.

By: Alan Wilensky

Alan Wilensky — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:45:13 +0000

There should be a ‘porn only’ video comment policy to help nip this madness in the bud.