My initial response to your video comment was positive. I immediately jumped over to Seesmic to see how I could get one of these cool “toys”. I really like the personal element that the video and sound add.

After a few minutes to think this through though, my opinion changes. I’m a scanner. I simply would not take the time to watch more than one video comment attached to a post. There is also no way I would click over to Seesmic to register in order to leave my own video comment. I don’t have time or patience for extra steps.

When you get right down to it, I wouldn’t leave a video comment anyway. I’m camera shy. Gosh if I have to fix my hair, brush my teeth and change my clothes to comment, forget it

Thanks so much for sharing! I now know this isn’t a tool for me.

The Problem with video commenting: Exhibit A 

When I click on Mike’s comment I only get a black box. Another problem with video comments. Your’s plays just fine.

I don’t think I’d ever leave a video comment unless it was just to pay around with the tool. I’d be apt to skip reading them also. Much quicker to read and/or scan text.

The person leaving the comment might influence my decision to listen. Morgan Webb is just more fun to look at than I am.

No harm in giving folks the option, if it does not take too long to set-up and use. If you start getting tons of spam from webcam strippers it might not be worth the time. Other than that why not? A low use tool with low overhead is nice for those who like it.

Yeah - time is the big issue for me: In print, I could have presented what I had to say so that someone reading it would spend 15 seconds taking it in, as opposed to rambling on for 4-1/2 minutes. I probably could also have said what I had to say in about a minute with a little more polished presentation, but still, if you have 10 people respond with videos of a minute each, it becomes much more of a time commitment to keep up. But who knows, there may be times when the audible / visual format really adds something that straight text wouldn’t (Four Words: blog comment rock opera).

Not a particularly good video. Bad connection I reckon. Anyhow, words and pictures in this comment.

Great big round of applause to you for being willing to try this new technology! As for myself I have a couple of issues and thoughts on the video commenting concept.

To be totally honest I do a lot of my library related blog reading, posting and commenting during slow times at work. Quite often I find myself using my slow times on the reference desk to catch up on my reading. This would make watching or creating video comments entirely unpractical. Even when I am in my own office, I am not sure I would feel comfortable watching video blogs and I could not make videos since I do not have the equipment to do so at work. So this technology would severely limit my ability to interact with you easily.

I can really see this being used as an adjunct to a regular blog post, where being able to show or demonstrate something would be of value, but not replace the written portion. I agree with Katie that it is nice to hear people’s voices and see there faces, but I am not sure that a pure video blog with video comment would work, unless you established that from the beginning of the blog. Maybe you could set up Greg’s House of video only! I am thinking of trying this and see if I can add a video to my about page on my blog. It could be fun.

Keep on pushing the boundaries!

Video comment followup - under 2 minutes I promise! 

comment challenge! 

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