{"id":2422,"date":"2008-05-14T15:52:10","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T19:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=2422"},"modified":"2008-05-14T15:52:10","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T19:52:10","slug":"video-comments-actually-not-so-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/05\/14\/video-comments-actually-not-so-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Video comments: Actually not so bad"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Disqus has enabled support for video comments from Seesmic, which launched the feature on TechCrunch awhile back. Even Fred Wilson of A VC — who is an investor in Disqus — admits in his post<\/a> that he isn’t sure about whether video comments work or not. And there are lots of people who are pretty sure<\/a> that they don’t work<\/a>, because you can’t scan them as easily as you can text, because they clutter up a blog and make it slow to load, and so on. And I must admit that when TechCrunch first launched them, I wasn’t too crazy about the idea either.<\/p>\n

As I’ve said before<\/a> on several occasions<\/a>, I’m not really a video guy. I don’t think it adds that much to have video, unless (as Scoble notes in Fred’s comment section) you are showing someone something that relies on the visual element, like a new gadget or a new baby. But when I wrote my earlier post on the topic, I was mostly talking about video blogs — the ones that are exclusively video. Unless you’re Loren Feldman<\/a> of 1938media (and let’s face it, who is?) that kind of thing reminds me of the Seinfeld episode when Kramer bought an old talk-show set and turned his living room into a fake talk show, but no one would go on.<\/p>\n

That said, I’m actually thinking that video comments aren’t such a bad idea (some people continue to disagree<\/a>). I don’t want everyone to use them, and I don’t want all the comments on a blog to be video — but in some cases it’s kind of fun to see Mike Arrington talking about<\/a> Wired magazine, or to see Fred in person<\/a> chatting into his web-cam. It is much more personal (which is why some people will probably never do it). But I actually don’t think it’s that bad. I think it adds a little variety — and if you don’t want to watch them, then you don’t have to. For an alternate (and hilarious) view, see this overview<\/a> by Scrivs at Expert Idiot.<\/p>\n

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So Disqus has enabled support for video comments from Seesmic, which launched the feature on TechCrunch awhile back. Even Fred Wilson of A VC — who is an investor in Disqus — admits in his post that he isn’t sure about whether video comments work or not. And there are lots of people who are … <\/p>\n

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