Internet News and Video

Posted on March 21, 2008 by grandweepers

Am I the only one that dislikes the trend towards putting news stories on video?  For instance, if I go to my page and there is a headline that interests me I will click on it and read the article.  But, If there is a video then another window will put up.  I’ll have to adjust my volume.  Then there will be a thirty second commercial for life insurance that I have to listen to before I get the information that I actually want. 

Then there is the quality of the video.  Often times the actual picture quality isn’t very good.  But, worse is the likelihood that the headline was misleading and the story doesn’t really give me the information that I want.  Now, I just sat through three and a half minutes of video that I wasn’t interested in.  If the article was I text article I would have know that instantly and would have moved on.

Am I the only one who finds these video links annoying?

Don’t get me wrong.  I’ll sit down and watch videos on YouTube.  I enjoy YouTube.  But, in those circumstances it is my choice to watch the videos and I’m not subjected to a thirty-second video. 

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    This is not my first blog. In fact I've had several blogs in the past. Some that I would even call successful. But each one was devoted to a particular topic or theme and that made it hard for me to consistently write content. I have a touch of the Ol' ADD. It's hard for me to post on one topic on a daily basis. Additionally, in the past I've used my real name on all my blogs. Nowadays I don't think that is a good idea. So, this blog will be different. You may find that I spend a few weeks talking about nothing but guitar, and then I'll shift to football; then to work. Perhaps I won't have as many readers. Who knows? My plan is to have one anonymous blog with a good track record of consistently posting, even if the posts don't cover one particular theme. Some of you may like it. Some of you may not. And thats OK. This blog is being hosted simultaneously on both Blogger.com and Wordpress.com at this time. I will most likely migrate this blog to wordpress completely at some point.

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