Why Flickr for Video Won't Work

I recently read a post on BoingBoing about a Flickr for video. While it may sound new fresh and exciting I simply don't think it will work. Why you ask? Because watching a video demands too much attention and too much of your time. When I look at someone's Flickr stream I can quickly decide if I like their photos, if I look at someone's blog I can scan some posts (quickly) and decide if I should add them to my RSS reader. This breaks down a bit when it comes to podcasts, as getting them is now pretty easy and you can listen to them on your commute or in the background while tending to other tasks. Podcasts have their weakness, you can't click on links while listening* to them and you cannot scan through them quickly. When it comes to video though the investment is just too high. It involves BOTH listening and watching and to make matters worse it demands a LOT of time, looking over twenty blogs doesn't take very long, watching a three minute video post from twenty blogs takes an hour, an hour that is purely focused on the video and cannot be a background activity, nor easily done while commuting. Then to make matters worse you will often spend a lot of time watching uninteresting video of mundane things, a lot of effort goes into making videos worthwhile to watch do you think the average "videocaster" is going to take the time do it properly, look at the number of typos and atrocious grammar that exists in blogs, video will only exacerbate this. So while it may be an interesting proposal, I just don't see video taking off in this manner. Unless it is Flickr (picture and video) for porn that might pique interest...

* A cool Growl (or any other method for that matter) plugin, would be one that while listening to the podcast would pop up something you click on to get background info when the podcaster mentions something that would be linked in a normal podcast.