Video is Going To Take Over? - Now You Can Post Video Comments on Blogs!

I was alerted to this: video comments for video blogs. Until now, it is almost impossible to stream video comments to blogs, and some video blogs - many of which use YouTube. However, I was informed of this plugin - disqus

Basically, the blogowner signs up with Disqus and installs the plugin. When video blogs are posted, other Disqus users reading the comment can post their video comments. It's just as simple as uploading your video content to the web and embedding the script onto the comment box - if only you were allowed to, but now can.

This development is interesting in that now, people can talk to each other - albeit the interval between the debut of the first and current comment could be anywhere between seconds to weeks or even month. Listening and watching is certainly more believeable and interactive. It also offers a more personal experience and certainly more engaging - except for the commentator when moments of awkwardness can be quite debilitating unless you have gotten use to talking to your monitor.

Be that as it may, I am certainly looking forward to see how this develops. I am sure the people at Google in Blogger would have thought of it and somewhat restrained themselves for reasons best known to them. I will be looking forward to see if video commenting will drive the traditional write-and-post off the internet superhighway.

Right now, the plugin has been created for Wordpress, Typepad, Blogger, Movable Type, and Tumblr. This is a fair amount of support it has given itself too, considering Wordpress and Blogger controlling at least two-thirds of the blogosphere where content management is concerned.

However, within disqus itself is a social networking system, and this makes it quite attractive. Nothing drives a device as quickly as its own community. Now, if only Facebook will want to integrate it into its system.

What I am worried about is how now spamming can and most certainly will be taken to a new level. Imagine spams in the form of video ads plonked onto your websites or blogs. And what about pornography - how can it be prevented?

Where web advertising is concerned, now, will someone create video ads that you can insert between your video comment? That is most certainly an interesting thing to think about!