Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Text, Please

With the widespread availability of broadband, certain many industries assume unlimited bandwidth for users of their internet products.  This is stupid in many cases, as there is a great deal of design elegance associated with not having navigate through a billion tons of bullshit.  Perhaps the worst offense is using videos in place of news articles.

If I wanted to consume video news, I'd watch tv.  I don't care if you have a dedicated streaming news show, or if you want to add videos to your articles.  But don't put up content that's exclusively video and then fail to provide a written synopsis.

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