As a side benefit, voice comments could be clipped into newsy podcasts, highly commented on posts with unique insights could be very interesting. Personal podcasts of the RSS Voice Comments feeds are possible. It just has to be as simple as making a Skype call and that's all it needs to be. Think about it in meetup confirmations. The list of commenters... their text message and their thoughts on the event, coming or the post mortem. Keep the length limited and they'd become very valuable.

Plus, the world that is smartest at handling comment spam would quickly solve the "spam" and reputation problems. No one will want voice spam advertising on their sites. It's probably time to turn the blogger loose on solving the VoIP spam issue anyways.

So I'm a little off track from my introduction. I'm more than enthusiastic about this. The viral aspects are huge. The opportunity to add this to WordPress or MT/Typepad blogs are relatively simple. Hans Blaauw and Dick Schiferli cooked up a new angle on the Podcaster / Skype recorder / Answer Machine. It's emerging in their Pamela Pro version reported on recently in beta.

It's still in very early stages. Hans did a great job on his demo with me. I called his Skype which was answered by Pamela in the Pamcast mode (am not that excited by the names) which played me a Mission Impossible theme with words spelling out my comment mission. The sound played through well, it beeped and I was leaving my comment. The music and intro was funny enough so I'd want to go back and do it again. Which merely suggest there will be a new market for "Voice Comment" audition / intro files. The chat window provided updates and when uploaded provided me with the url to visit the page with my voice message.

The mechanics that convert this from the solution below to a Skype to Blog solution needs very little. Currently the upload is via FTP. It could easily be done via the xml-rpc interface. Pamcast is already writing an XML file. Lots of smart things can be done on recording who the commenter was, etc. It's not that hard to connect the dots. Add in the presence component and something really viral is waiting to emerge.

This really requires the lazy web to complete it. I think I can provide many of the pieces, from presence engine, the blog requirements and suggesting Pamela amendments. I really believe SixApart should sponsor a small external skype developer team to pull this one off.

Is there real money in it? It's a question Mark asks and others keep asking. I'll answer that I don't think there is much in this. Skype in time could also duplicate the features by providing a blog commenting channel, etc. Is it likely in the short-term I doubt it. However, the companies that build it and the developers that help them reap the rewards. The list above can provide open customer feedback, team briefs and much much more. The money is more likely in the integration, the training and the execution.

Will this change perceptions around telephony? Absolutely! Will connecting blog commenting with presence and status create a revolution? Probably! It's the peer to peer and grassroots method that Yahoo 360 and MSN spaces will never provide. We are talking about a completely decentralized voice commenting system.

To summarize. It requires a bundled bit of SkypeAPI friendly software that handles presence, recording, notifications and uploads. It can even ping a "commentscentral" like weblogs.com everytime a new comment is lodged. The list goes on. It requires some simple template modifications on the blogs. It requires the user to click once to record their voice comment and you must have Skype to play. Note: for those that have SkypeIn comments could also be accepted from any PSTN phone.

Hans' page with my instant (and silly) response recorded and uploaded. Be careful what you say! Note the name is a callto tag and the speaker currently is the recording. Reverse the order and a few other things and the blog demo is clear.

So who wants to help make this happen?