My last post has generated a lot of comments, and mails.
Some have asked why I did the transcript.
Sometimes, when I do a search there is a video clip. A stale non-functioning video clip. it may be the nature of the internet, but things change.
Sites, links, images and embedded objects move about like stones on a beach. They will stand unmoving for years, but the right tide or the right storm, and all the markers shift. The links change, the sites are reorganised and embedded videos point to an empty page on their parent site.
Text survives.
Text can be copied and pasted. Text can be put in e-mails, on t shirts, in books and survive by being spread out across the world. Nowadays text is the viral source of a meme. It can remain silent in an old print out for years, only to unfold the flower of an idea years later.
Text isn’t strong however. Often if needs a voice to be spread, a video to be seen.
Text however is the king of the internet. It drives the search engines to make an idea findable. Until technology gets to a point where it can determine an image or a video or a sound clip without surrounding text to explain it to the search engine, it is what remains after all else has moved on the ebbing tide of time.
And some tales need to remain to be told through the years just like some songs need to remain to be sung after the singer has moved on.
Will
May 28th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Also a lot of people (in Ireland anyway) do not have broadband and can’t afford the week it takes to download\buffer a clip from youtube, so the text/transcript helps a lot. Thanks again for going to the effort Will.
Joe
May 28th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
Damn right. Fair play.
June 5th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Great time and effort Will and much appreciated thankyou!
Is it ok to put this link on my group?
June 5th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Group?