The internet of things
There’s a whole group of people would rather poorly video something simple because, err, well, I dunno. And, also, long pocasts. I would add to that list slideshows. If there was a search engine that excluded slideshows from search engine results, they’d make lots of internet money.
And while I’m ragging on the internet in general, here’s something else that bugs me. You know how the big thing to do was to take picture of something then put black boxes at the top and/or bottom of them with text to make some joke. You know, like this. Well, now people do that with videos. And they both bug me.
Get off my lawn.
The future is stupid.
March 10th, 2017 at 7:15 pm
Youtube algorithms and monetization favor longer videos by ranking them higher in search and making them eligible for more ads. I don’t make videos much over two minutes in length because:
1. I don’t make videos for the money.
2. Half your viewers are gone within two minutes.
But there will always be those who ramble into a camera and don’t edit. YouTube has no shortage of that kind of content.
March 10th, 2017 at 8:53 pm
This can help with the slideshows: http://deslide.clusterfake.net/
It doesn’t work on every site, but most of the popular ones are supported. Most slideshows liked to on Fark are linked to with this.
March 10th, 2017 at 9:20 pm
I can’t stand the videos where the host has to drone on and on and ON about his topic. Quit with the bullshitting and get to the topic. I don’t need or want a 10 minute intro to this subject including all your great experiences and bona fides. I just want to see the best way to open up my Rossi.
March 11th, 2017 at 12:52 pm
Honestly, I’d rather read the article in most cases. My pet peeve: clicking on a news article and getting an autoplay video that is exactly the same words as the article. It takes far less time for me to read it than it does for the talking head to say it.
March 12th, 2017 at 10:25 am
Video should be to show something that’s difficult to convey with just words or photos. Show me someone DOING something. Don’t show me someone talking.
March 12th, 2017 at 11:23 am
At the risk of being exposed as a pedantic elitist, I’d argue that many if not most videos are made because their creators can’t write a comprehensible English sentence, and the only way to convey their ideas is by video. I base this statement on reading hundreds of blog comments that ramble on and end up nowhere, containing misspellings (which show the author is too lazy to spell-check), misstatements of fact ( which show the author is too lazy to look something up), and run-on or incomplete sentences. I’m willing to overlook typos, but when a blogger writes “your” for “you’re” (or vice versa), “they’re” for “their”, or “city’s” for “cities,” my interest in what they have to say tanks.
Don’t bother to tell me I’m an elitist asshole. I already know it.
March 12th, 2017 at 1:42 pm
I don’t watch videos on the Internet, not even music, I just can’t, they take too long to get to the point and I would rather read than listen or watch.