"The smart (or jaded) money on the internet sees video (remember, video has been the next big thing for the past five or six years now) as curiously retro. The internet overcomes the inefficiency of its vast blather because you can skim it and skip it – we are all negligent readers now – but video is clumsy because you actually have to watch it. While a quick glance at a first sentence can identify the worth of a commenter, with video, you're stuck."

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ryanbrown:

Entirely agree (!!!) with Michael Wolff here. As a friend of mine put it recently: “Video is like the voicemail of the web.”

Finally! “Video is like the voicemail of the web.”

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    “video is the voicemail of the internet”

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    I do not wish to be confused for someone with opinions about how “new media” works, but there is no gesture so hostile...

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    This is why I hate TED talks. Would much rather read a goddamned transcript.

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    gbattle sez: +1. I just had this conversation. Photos are most fluid and effective narrative content medium. Text can be...

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    Rafer sez: +1

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    The tabs that sit open in my browsers the longest are the ones with videos to watch.

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