Comments on: Video comments: Actually not so bad

By: mathewi

mathewi — Thu, 15 May 2008 02:42:03 +0000

You can't yet, but Daniel Ha of Disqus has assured me (and lots of
other people) that it's in the works, along with trackbacks.

By: davidusher

davidusher — Thu, 15 May 2008 02:11:20 +0000

ive been thinking about adding it but im just not sure about video comments. guess ill just have to give it a go. im still trying to decide about disqus, you still cant export your data right?

By: mathewi

mathewi — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:39:05 +0000

They could, Allen — but that's part of why I think video makes more
sense for comments than it does for posts. It's good for quick
thoughts or messages, but not for longer-form (unless you are
spectacularly interesting).

By: allen stern

allen stern — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:35:04 +0000

what's interesting is that you note mike going off on wired and fred talking into his webcam - in both of those cases you speak about the post author. they could easily embed a video into their post.

By: mathewi

mathewi — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:33:03 +0000

I think you're right, Guin — no one is forcing anyone to make (or
watch) a video comment. But some people might actually feel more
comfortable expressing themselves in video rather than text. And as
you point out, text comments can be long and rambling and poorly
focused as well. I don't see video as an option being that huge a deal
really.