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I was reading Robert Scoble's blog, Scobleizer, and was excited to see that someone had answered one of his posts by posting this link to a screencast made with Camtasia Studio in the 'comments' field. How cool is that?! You can see Robert's original post here.

The creator of the screencast is Raymond Kristiansen. This is what he did - he made a video of reproducing the error when he downloads the OPML-file into his Bloglines account. Then, he shows the solution. What a quick and cool way to show a fix, plus there's no pesky, full-of-too-much-detail reading!

Raymond told me it was faster for him to make a quick screencast than it was to type out the answer. He has a speedvlogging approach to screencasting. He thinks it should be quick to make, and quick to edit.

It's kind of like e-mail. You know how sometimes you're writing an important e-mail and you type it out verrryyy carefully, making sure it's perfect? And on the other hand, when you want to quickly communicate with a friend, you write like you talk? That's kind of like screencasting. Screencasts aren't polished, perfect videos with two-track audio and editing galore - and they're not meant to be. Why? Because they're created to communicate quickly, plainly, and simply.