Agreed, entirely. The big problem with voicemail as a medium is that it takes so long to read. Not to mention lack of indexability, near-impossibility of seekin

Agreed, entirely. The big problem with voicemail as a medium is that it takes so long to read. Not to mention lack of indexability, near-impossibility of seeking accurately... ...So remind me, again, why we're getting so excited about video comments on blogs, or sending audio clips instead of emails? It's like, after a few years with a high-productivity medium (rapidly-delivered text), some people have just completely un-learned so much of what it taught us.