The camera never lies; it also makes you look fatter and taller. A webcam, on the other hand, make you look.. pyramidal; only more mad, like the hill in Close Encounters. Especially when the screen is tiny and the face is back lit, and they lean in, (and then you lean in..)Check out the sidebar in TechCrunch for examples of video comments (pictured); and here for discussion of. Comments have always been the many Mini-Mes to the mighty blog Me. Only now, it seems, increasingly literally.
Hmm.. if they built into the comment bit of a blog the same functionality as the blog itself, then ones "blog" could be the aggregate of ones comments. Perhaps the internet is just a bunch of boxes.
By the way: is a 'video comment' a vommet? Well, that would explain why they make you lean.
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