New: Video Comments On All TechCrunch Blogs

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9 pointsutnick4 comments

When measuring the value of the feature, you have to ask if the feature would have been added if Michael Arrington wasn't an investor in Seesmic.

On a blog with the number of comments as TechCrunch posts have, video-comments aren't useful, quite on the contrary.

You can skim fast through text, perceiving value in some comments are reading those more carefully. With video-comments you just can't do that -- are you going to waste minutes and minutes just to 'see' the comments of a post you read in less then a minute?

Also, who has the time to write an outline of what they're going to say, pretty up a bit for the camera, record the video, edit out the part where the cat spills your coffee, watch the video again, compress the video, and upload the video?

I will stick to text-only comments, thankyouverymuch.

I can't wait to see nigerians advertising the h0ttest de4ls on viagr@ in full-motion video format!

I agree - I think this is going to be full of unintended consequences and require substantial amounts of additional editing. Normally, censoring comments in mass is much easier than censoring video clips in mass.

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