Video Comments on WordPress Blogs

18 Responses to “Video Comments on WordPress Blogs”

1. Andy C on April 23, 2008 8:10 pm

   Interesting. I suspect in < 5 years, this will be standard and we’ll say ‘God – do you remember ‘Text comments’ ?

2. Fique-Rico.com on April 23, 2008 10:36 pm

   Nice idea but not pratice then text comments.
   I will give it a try.

   Thanks Daniel.

3. infmom on April 23, 2008 11:35 pm

   Am I in so much of the minority? I hate video comments. I hate having stuff explained to me in videos. YouTube is fine in its place, but finding amateur videos taking up space on people’s blogs… ugh.

4. Loren Nason on April 23, 2008 11:58 pm

   Interesting.

   But I found another video commenting plugin a while ago at riffly.com

   I am going to have to compare the 2 now and see which is better

5. Bilingual Blogger on April 24, 2008 1:56 am

   Oh great. Now bloggers will have to worry about combating spam video comments. Yuck. I’m sure all the spam advertisers of drugs, penis enlargement products and “YOU’VE WON A BILLION DOLLARS FROM THE BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY!!!!!” are working right now on videos they can upload.

   Sometimes what seems like “progress” is anything but.

6. Michael on April 24, 2008 2:03 am

   I am a reader. I want to scan blog and comment text for relevant tidbits. Video blogging and commenting do not allow that. If a blog posts a video or mp3, I pass it by. I will do the same to audiovisual comments.

7. Lex G on April 24, 2008 5:04 am

   … video is actually everywhere already … the fact that it can show up in comments now is interesting indeed … now we can all wear tshirts with our blog’s domain names while we comment – yay –

   Lex G

8. Siddharth on April 24, 2008 7:41 am

   I have seen this new feature, but not tried yet. This will sure bring more interactivity on the bloggers and commentators/visitors but I agree with the above comment that how will you then stop Video Spam. Then you have to manually look every video and delete if it is spam and that can painful.

9. Rajaie on April 24, 2008 8:13 am

   Actually, unless a video post looks really interesting, I won’t watch. Mostly because text will always be easier to scan through and also because not all people have DSL, and watching videos on dial-up isn’t very pleasant.

10. Melvin on April 24, 2008 8:43 am

    exactly… and most people like sites that load fast…

11. team ray on April 24, 2008 11:08 am

    this was evitable

    everything goes to video eventually

12. Maniquí on April 24, 2008 4:11 pm

    Audio-manifesto:
    http://www.idlewords.com/audio-manifesto.txt

    That article comes in time (via Dean Allen’s Textism: http://www.textism.com)

13. Daniel Scocco on April 24, 2008 7:23 pm

    @Rajae, good point. Over the time I still think that video will be pervasive though. That is why television dominated over radio and print formats.

14. fitzheim on April 30, 2008 1:17 am

    I don’t think video comments are good. I prefer text comments more as it is more convenient, easier to load.

    Heck, my internet connection is too slow for video comment…