Comments on: Survival Kit For Scoble’s Shared Items

By: TT

TT — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:32:24 +0000

You are all idiots… the ads it what pays the bloggers ;(

By: Adrian Sutton

Adrian Sutton — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:50:09 +0000

Robert,
Video is what you do – for you, video is the best way to distribute information in a lot of cases, for me I find video tedious and almost always a poor choice. I wouldn’t expect you to post videos less, just like noone would expect me to talk about editors less. I’m just glad I get a choice whether or not to have those videos display.

Though, I would suggest PodTech rethink the animating comments function of the viewer – particularly before the video is played. Some of the names it’s called me is quite insulting and it’s not immediately clear that it’s a user comment rather than PodTech just not liking me. :)

By: Robert Scoble

Robert Scoble — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:23:48 +0000

Of course I put this on my shared items feed. Thanks! I’ll try to be better about the video stuff.

By: Adrian Sutton

Adrian Sutton — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:51:04 +0000

If you actually *want* to watch the video it’s useful, so the CSS above doesn’t block YouTube videos, but Scoble just can’t help but include a video on nearly every post and they’re usually way too long to watch while in the middle of sorting through feeds. Even worse, the PodTech video player animates through all the comments on the video – hate speech and foul language included. It’s never good to be distracted by that kind of stuff while you’re trying to read the actual post content.

By: Andrew Herron

Andrew Herron — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:31:18 +0000

I agree, except for embeds. I love being able to watch embedded videos without opening a new browser tab :P

And now that you mention it I should request something like this for FeedDemon… :)