Somebody said on Twitter that there should be a new acronym: tv;dw for "too video; didn't watch". And the same day I saw that remark, an LJ friend linked to a really interesting TEDx video. I thought about it and decided it was likely to be interesting enough to justify 15 minutes sitting watching the video, and indeed it was. It contained actual relevant scientific information and some thoughtful and new to me analysis, unadulterated by the kind of hipstery flashy mostly bullshit that sometimes plagues mediocre TEDx stuff. But it was 15 minutes of video of a woman speaking, occasionally panning out to show a lecture theatre audience listening to her, and with a smattering of visual aids consisting of stock photos of eg a shattered windscreen to represent a car crash.
If that content had available as plain text, it would have lost nothing because all the information was in the words. And it would have taken me 3 minutes to read and I'd have absorbed and remembered it a lot better. ( this led to thinky thoughts )
If that content had available as plain text, it would have lost nothing because all the information was in the words. And it would have taken me 3 minutes to read and I'd have absorbed and remembered it a lot better. ( this led to thinky thoughts )
