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Seriously. Why do I even bother accepting (or reading) comments on YouTube? The other day, someone accused me of doing nothing but advertising for other companies – but they asserted this accusation for the video in which I was doing nothing but throwing a snowball into the camera’s lens. WTF?! Today, this happened:

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People who comment on a video with only “FIRST!” are nothing more than a pancake. They don’t care about the comment, they only care to make comments before anyone else does. I love getting comments, really I do. I bring this up to ask you this… who owns your comments?

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You may need to click the image to see the larger version of it. Really makes you stop and think, eh? Well, at least some of us need to stop and think – and some of us just need to stop. I could respond one of several ways:

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I recently uploaded a one-minute video of my laughing hysterically. In three days’ time, that video has had over 10,000 views on YouTube, and received more than 300 comments. What does it take to generate this kind of traffic? Jeff sent me an email recently, asking me what tips and tricks there are to get content to the top of search engines?

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An old friend from Iowa recently emailed to ask me how I manage to keep up with all the comments I receive on a daily basis. I have comments on my blog, YouTube, MySpace, Twitter, Facebook, and so on. He wondered if I have advice for all of you to help manage your comments.

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Blog comments are… just about dead. I’m not saying that they don’t happen, but inline community commentary isn’t as strong as it used to be. There are certainly breakaway posts that resonate with visitors – but even when bloggers beg (outright) for insight, it doesn’t come easily. If everybody’s talking, who is listening? Not to offend any reader, but while I hope to provide some amount of guidance with my scribblings, I do write largely for myself.

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