Updated 10/28/08: Screencast.com just made it so you don't have to move your content out of the Jing folder to allow commenting. That said, learning to manage your Jing content on Screencast.com can be a very valuable skill--especially for those of you who have a ton of content and reuse it.

Mike got a little over-excited yesterday when he revealed how to allow commenting on content created with Jing. He forgot to mention one really important step: You have to move the content out of the Jing folder in order for viewers to comment. We hope to remove that necessity in the future.

Until then...it gave me a great excuse to make a video showing you how to do it (and to make fun of Mike).

So here you go... How to Allow Comenting on Jing Content:

Screencast.com recently added the option for you to allow viewers to comment on your content. The best part is that you can be notified via email when people post.

Learn more here.

Here's a tip: I name Jing content I care about with a real file name instead of using the default time stamp. This makes it easier to find it in my Screencast.com Jing folder. In fact, I often start my file name with an underscore so it's at the top of my list in the Jing folder on Screencast.com.

Learn more about managing your content on Screencast.com. And as always, you can visit http://www.screencast.com/answers for more information about Screencast.com.

Oh, and in case you've not heard, Jing is free, the Screencast.com account is free and we're here to stay.

The thing about Jing is it's about communicating with friends and colleagues. We were wondering how you learned about Jing. Did someone "Jing" you and you had to discover how to "Jing" them back? Did you hear about Jing on the Web somewhere?

Leave a comment to tell us about the day you discovered Jing!

You may have captured an image or video then clicked the Share button and wondered, "Where in the world did my file just go?" You may have seen a message like this, but found the message of little use.

What's happening is that Jing is copying a URL (hyperlink), file path, or other content to your clipboard.

But what's the clipboard?

The clipboard is a little tough to explain because it's a computer metaphor that you can't see or touch, but you've likely used it without knowing it. Consider a word-processing document. You want to move some text around so you highlight a sentence then click Edit > Cut and move the cursor to where you want the text to be placed. Then you click Edit > Paste. Almost magically, the text that was gone reappears. Where was the text while in between the cut and the paste? It was on your clipboard--a little place in your computer that remembers one thing for easy retrieval.

Jing uses the clipboard too. When you copy an image to your clipboard or share content to Screencast.com, Jing stores (remembers) the image, URL (hyperlink), or other content on your clipboard. It's kind of like Jing automatically does that first step--the copy part--for you. Then all you have to do is paste the content in any supported location.

Here's a couple of examples:

1. I capture an image and click the Copy button. At this point Jing copies the image to the clip board and considers its work done. I switch over to my PowerPoint presentation and paste it in using PowerPoint's menu.

2. I record a quick video and click the Send to Screencast.com button. Jing uploads the video to my Screencast.com account and once it's privately hosted on my Screencast.com account (on the Internet) Jing gets a URL (hyperlink) with the location of my video. Jing then copies the URL onto my clipboard. I paste the URL from my clipboard into an email I am going to send to many of my friends.