Video Comments: 5 reasons they DO work

[Video comments] add a really nice wrinkle and option in the way that people can interact with a blog or website (for a bunch of examples, check out TechCrunch, which rolled out video comments through its partnership with Seesmic yesterday). Think about it: if someone’s going to take the time to turn on a webcam and say something in front of it that the whole world might have the potential to contemplate, isn’t that a pretty cool thing? And when we’re talking tech and media-related blogs, I think in the vast majority of cases people who leave video comments are going to at least try to be thoughtful and intelligent about it."

"Viddler is one of the closest plays I’ve seen in [the direction of video blogging platform], a video and social networking site that is stronger than YouTube in terms of creating a home for videobloggers to promote themselves."