[GTALUG] Old and New Habits...

[Steve Petrie]

o1bigrenor is absolutely correct with his observation: "when I'm 
supposed to spend an hour of my time watching something that I could 
have read through in likely under 5 minutes - - - they're a waste of my 
time."

A few paragraphs of well-crafted textual prose can be read and absorbed 
more quickly than the time it would take to watch a video conveying the 
same ideas. I often avoid watching lengthy videos, because the time 
investment is likely not justified by the video's information content.

This being said, videos do have an important role to play on the 
Internet. For example, when a journalist interviews a prominent public 
figure, their conversation can range dynamically and spontaneously over 
subject matter. Tone of voice and facial expressions also convey 
information. The interviewer can confront the interviewee with difficult 
observations and questions. How the interviewee handles these 
challenges, will inform the audience about the character of the 
interviewee.

Consider the urban riots in the United Kingdom. A video of a streetscape 
engulfed in rioting, has a more dramatic impact then the simple word 
"riot". And a video of UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer, conveys more 
powerfully, subtle aspects of his demenour and attitude, than would a 
written report. A written report could carry biased implications, 
whereas the video of Starmer is unvarnished uninterpreted Starmer.

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  		Re: [GTALUG] Old and New Habits...

  		DATE:
  		2024-08-11 07:31

  		FROM:
  		o1bigtenor via talk <talk at gtalug.org>

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On Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 8:51 PM Peter King via talk <talk at gtalug.org> 
wrote:

> On 8/10/24 7:08 PM, James Knott via talk wrote: On 8/10/24 19:02, Peter 
> King via talk wrote:
> Thoughts? Experiences with gmail?
> I don't recall email addresses ever being case sensitive and my 
> experience goes back to a VAX 11/780 in the mid 80s.  I agree with your 
> daughter, making it case sensitive would be a bad idea.  Is there an 
> RFC that says otherwise?
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Don't know about a canonical RFC.  I could live without case 
sensitivity, but punctuation?

I'm a thinking that poor use of case and a dearth of punctuation are 
actually small potatoes to what is
happening out there in the wild. What I am seeing is that text has 
almost become discarded in favor of,
wait - - - you'll love this - - - video. It is just so much easier to 
disseminate ideas if one can babble in
from of some kind of video taking device than to actually write things.

Agreed - - - poor or bad punctuation makes for difficult reading, lack 
of capitalization also doesn't help
much but when I'm supposed to spend an hour of my time watching 
something that I could have read
through in likely under 5 minutes - - - they're a waste of my time. (And 
that's not getting into the severe
dearth of understanding of information that has been acquired in the 
past - - - we MUST repeat research
at least every generation!! (NO!!!!!!) Its so research institutions 
remove access to research within 3 years
of completion - - - because its 'old' - - - - ARGH!!

end rant!

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