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Update: Seesmic’s API is “alpha”, and in turn broke this a number of times, so I’m not actively maintaining it.

Yesterday I enabled video comments on this blog via Seesmic. One of my first thoughts was why should my viewers be limited to posting videos when on my blog. I do most of my blog reading in Google Reader, and have wished for comment integration, and it stands the same would be true of video. So I twittered to let Loic know:

@loiclemeur do you plan to do Feedburner integration? i.e. leave video comment from inside Google Reader

But, then it dawned on me.. why should your video comments be restricted to blogs with the Seesmic wordpress plugin installed. Why just comments? Why not any blog? Why not any website? How cool would it be to leave video’s that are in some way linked to BBC news articles, or Wikipedia, or …?

So I prototyped it. Check out my Seesmic Bookmarklet, install it and leave a comment from any URL. I’ve messaged Loic, and Johann (Seesmic’s CTO), hopefully I can get it to the point of viewing videos others have left at the same URL. I’m open to other suggestions so please leave them here. Here’s my video announcing it on Seesmic:

Update: I’m already noticing some issues with finishing the post. The interface implies it hasn’t completed, but it has. I’ll get on it.

If you’ve not already heard of “join the video conversation” Seesmic, you must have been hidden under a [virtual] rock. It’s Loic’s current startup and they’ve released a WordPress plugin that allows you to leave video comments on a WordPress blog.

While I still have my doubts about Seesmic (it hasn’t grabbed my screen time [..yet]), I’m happy to support in anyway I can. So taking this “why not” attitude you can all leave video comments on my blog. If I don’t know you please introduce yourself in a short video.