My Web is Text Based
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My Web is Text Based
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#2This shift over to primarily video content irritates me: I like reading text, and video is difficult with my college's slow Internet.
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#3people don't like reading. most people read @ an 8th grade level because of the brain damage inflicted by mandatory government education.
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#4I completely agree and my visits to such sites have gone down as well. Other sites that I have stopped visiting less include sports.yahoo.com and movies.yahoo.com. And don't even get me started with tv.yahoo.com.
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#5There was a reason to reading the sports section!
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#6I feel the same way about ESPN. I like reading interesting articles about sports but it is actually not that easy to find good content - there is no hacker news for sports (yet!).
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#7If you don't like video, maybe you shouldn't be going to the web site of a cable channel?
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#8The main problem I have with video over text is that it takes much longer to convey the same information. I can read about 5 times faster (450-500 wpm) than most video (90-100 wpm). So other than special cases where video is crucial, I much prefer text.
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#9people don't like reading. most people read @ an 8th grade level because of the brain damage inflicted by mandatory government education.
most people probably would be illiterate without a mandatory government education
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#10The main problem I have with video over text is that it takes much longer to convey the same information. I can read about 5 times faster (450-500 wpm) than most video (90-100 wpm). So other than special cases where video is crucial, I much prefer text.
On top of that you can't scan, skim, skip, and search it nearly as well. It's thus much harder to assess the value of video/audio content up front.