Comments on: Video Comments: Huh? http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/05/14/video-comments-huh/ Insight and Analysis from North of the Border Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:03:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Speak Your Mind | Techno Mojo http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/05/14/video-comments-huh/#comment-131242 Speak Your Mind | Techno Mojo Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:27:49 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/?p=3418#comment-131242 [...] Video Comments: Huh? [...] [...] Video Comments: Huh? [...]

]]> By: Seesmic Video Comments http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/05/14/video-comments-huh/#comment-61905 Seesmic Video Comments Thu, 15 May 2008 08:41:56 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/?p=3418#comment-61905 [...] nature won’t sit well with many. Mark Evans expressed a similar dissatisfaction and has a good discussion going [...] [...] nature won’t sit well with many. Mark Evans expressed a similar dissatisfaction and has a good discussion going [...]

]]> By: Cyndy Aleo-Carreira http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/05/14/video-comments-huh/#comment-61841 Cyndy Aleo-Carreira Thu, 15 May 2008 04:10:39 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/?p=3418#comment-61841 Phew! I thought it was just me! Everyone was so all-fired enthusiastic I thought there was something wrong with me. I. don't. have. time. That's the crux of it. It would be faster for me to fire up Seesmic and do this as a video comment, but it would take longer for anyone to read it. I see a video comment in a thread and I go right on by. It could be the most insightful comment every with a VENN diagram that gives me the answer to everything in the universe and I'd have no idea because I don't have time to sit and watch someone in a video just in case it IS the answer to the universe. There's no huge entry to filming a video comment, especially since so many people have Macs. I have a handy little iSight sitting there WAITING for me to make a video comment. I just don't want to make people sit through it. It takes ME longer to type a comment, but anyone else less time to read it. Why would I want to make their adoption of my theories, and my subsequent world domination, more difficult for them to access? Phew! I thought it was just me! Everyone was so all-fired enthusiastic I thought there was something wrong with me. I. don’t. have. time. That’s the crux of it. It would be faster for me to fire up Seesmic and do this as a video comment, but it would take longer for anyone to read it. I see a video comment in a thread and I go right on by. It could be the most insightful comment every with a VENN diagram that gives me the answer to everything in the universe and I’d have no idea because I don’t have time to sit and watch someone in a video just in case it IS the answer to the universe.

There’s no huge entry to filming a video comment, especially since so many people have Macs. I have a handy little iSight sitting there WAITING for me to make a video comment. I just don’t want to make people sit through it.

It takes ME longer to type a comment, but anyone else less time to read it. Why would I want to make their adoption of my theories, and my subsequent world domination, more difficult for them to access?

]]> By: WinExtra » From the Pipeline - 5.14.08 http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/05/14/video-comments-huh/#comment-61838 WinExtra » From the Pipeline - 5.14.08 Thu, 15 May 2008 03:50:30 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/?p=3418#comment-61838 [...]  Video Comments: Huh? :: Mark Evans - not everyone is enamored with the idea of Disqus supporting video comments .. or even just plain old video comments. I’m still of a mixed mind on the matter myself even though they are enabled here. [...] [...]  Video Comments: Huh? :: Mark Evans - not everyone is enamored with the idea of Disqus supporting video comments .. or even just plain old video comments. I’m still of a mixed mind on the matter myself even though they are enabled here. [...]

]]> By: docgui http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/05/14/video-comments-huh/#comment-61822 docgui Thu, 15 May 2008 03:01:17 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/?p=3418#comment-61822 Aidan Henry "1) Watching a video takes a lot longer than reading a short bit of text. There is much higher potential for noise, time-wasting, self-promotion, and spam among other things." Well you seem to have missed my point. Right now there are less video comments than text comments. Video comments have a higher barrier to entry and hopefully if you cared enough to make a video and spent multiples of the time necessary to make several text posts. "2) If you want to provide a detailed response, write a post and provide a trackback. Let me decide how whether I want to hear your long-winded opinion :)" Not everyone wants to a) start a blog b)maintain a blog and c)provide a trackback and people looking for answers might find it easier to click an inline video and see for themselves whether it's worth it than follow a mystery link. Besides some things are better presented visually (e.g., a visual walkthrough on solving a vexing computer error), some people are visual learners. "3) Better rankings? I think the opposite is true. Because video is being used instead of text, the search engines have less content to crawl." Search engines are now looking at more assets on the page. Including relevant media like images and video and tagging them appropriately already improves search engine rankings. Aidan Henry

“1) Watching a video takes a lot longer than reading a short bit of text. There is much higher potential for noise, time-wasting, self-promotion, and spam among other things.”

Well you seem to have missed my point.

Right now there are less video comments than text comments. Video comments have a higher barrier to entry and hopefully if you cared enough to make a video and spent multiples of the time necessary to make several text posts.

“2) If you want to provide a detailed response, write a post and provide a trackback. Let me decide how whether I want to hear your long-winded opinion :)”

Not everyone wants to
a) start a blog b)maintain a blog and c)provide a trackback
and people looking for answers might find it easier to click an inline video and see for themselves whether it’s worth it than follow a mystery link.

Besides some things are better presented visually (e.g., a visual walkthrough on solving a vexing computer error), some people are visual learners.

“3) Better rankings? I think the opposite is true. Because video is being used instead of text, the search engines have less content to crawl.”

Search engines are now looking at more assets on the page. Including relevant media like images and video and tagging them appropriately already improves search engine rankings.

]]> By: Video comments: Actually not so bad » mathewingram.com/work | http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/05/14/video-comments-huh/#comment-61766 Video comments: Actually not so bad » mathewingram.com/work | Wed, 14 May 2008 19:56:59 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/?p=3418#comment-61766 [...] whether video comments work or not. And there are lots of people who are pretty sure that they don’t work, because you can’t scan them as easily as you can text, because they clutter up a blog and [...] [...] whether video comments work or not. And there are lots of people who are pretty sure that they don’t work, because you can’t scan them as easily as you can text, because they clutter up a blog and [...]

]]> By: Aidan Henry http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/05/14/video-comments-huh/#comment-61754 Aidan Henry Wed, 14 May 2008 19:08:42 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/?p=3418#comment-61754 Hey Mark, I feel the exact same way. I think this post from Scrivs best sums it up: http://expertidiot.com/19/video-comments-blow-me/ I'm working on a post of my own... @docgui None of your stated "advantages" are merited. 1) Watching a video takes a lot longer than reading a short bit of text. There is much higher potential for noise, time-wasting, self-promotion, and spam among other things. 2) If you want to provide a detailed response, write a post and provide a trackback. Let me decide how whether I want to hear your long-winded opinion :) 3) Better rankings? I think the opposite is true. Because video is being used instead of text, the search engines have less content to crawl. Just my two bits... Cheers, Aidan Hey Mark,

I feel the exact same way. I think this post from Scrivs best sums it up: http://expertidiot.com/19/video-comments-blow-me/ I’m working on a post of my own…

@docgui
None of your stated “advantages” are merited.

1) Watching a video takes a lot longer than reading a short bit of text. There is much higher potential for noise, time-wasting, self-promotion, and spam among other things.

2) If you want to provide a detailed response, write a post and provide a trackback. Let me decide how whether I want to hear your long-winded opinion :)

3) Better rankings? I think the opposite is true. Because video is being used instead of text, the search engines have less content to crawl.

Just my two bits…

Cheers,
Aidan

]]> By: Mark Evans http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/05/14/video-comments-huh/#comment-61753 Mark Evans Wed, 14 May 2008 19:00:58 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/?p=3418#comment-61753 I would also suggest that video comments work for people who are loved by the camera AND love the camera. I would also suggest that video comments work for people who are loved by the camera AND love the camera.

]]> By: engtech http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/05/14/video-comments-huh/#comment-61752 engtech Wed, 14 May 2008 19:00:47 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/?p=3418#comment-61752 How in the world would a video comment make your site get better search rankings? Text is indexed by search engines. Video, not so much. How in the world would a video comment make your site get better search rankings?

Text is indexed by search engines. Video, not so much.

]]> By: engtech http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/05/14/video-comments-huh/#comment-61751 engtech Wed, 14 May 2008 18:59:43 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/?p=3418#comment-61751 Video comments only make sense if your readers are really really really ridiculously good looking. Video comments only make sense if your readers are really really really ridiculously good looking.

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