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The above vlog was produced with Seesmic Video right from my WordPress blog on the write screen. No longer do I have to upload a video somewhere and paste it in. It’s as simple as clicking “Add a video to your post”, recording and saving a video.

I’d been using Riffly Video on DeafVIDEO.TV for approximately 6 months. Video comments are all the rage: 10,500 video comments were posted. During this time, Riffly went down two or three times. Once, in February, it went down for 2 weeks. Visitors still came to DeafVIDEO.TV to enjoy the YouTube videos although they weren’t able to leave comments.

This past weekend, Riffly went down again. So I searched for another video solution and came across Seesmic Video. Funny thing though, I’ve seen it before but it didn’t have a WordPress plug-in then. DeafVIDEO.TV isn’t entirely based on WordPress, so it took customizing to get it to work. 3 or 4 hours of burning the midnight candle got it to work.

Early the next morning, it was clear that people liked Seesmic. In the first 24 hours, 550 video comments were made at DeafVIDEO.TV. People remarked about how they liked the improved video quality.

I knew DeafThat! would have to switch from Riffly to Seesmic. I just finished this afternoon. DeafThat! is re-launched with Seesmic Video.

If you have a self-hosted WordPress blog (not WordPress.com), adding the Seesmic Video plug-in works out of the box–granted the theme is written correctly. It wasn’t until a couple days later that I discovered Seesmic wasn’t only able to make video comments but also the vlog shown in posts. Is this going to change vlogging? Not everyone has their own blog running WordPress.

Out of the box, the default video size is medium-sized. Increasing this size is possible–edit the width and height in the included javascript file.

Hopefully soon I will have the chance to test it on DeafRead Blogs.

Test out Seesmic here in the comments, at DeafVIDEO.TV or DeafThat!