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No Carolyn Hax chat or Gene Weingarten chat this week. How am I supposed to procrastinate at work??

Can I just go on record in opposition to this explosion of internet videos being passed around? It's not that they're not funny. And it's not that I think LJ's new video embedding feature was done poorly or distastefully; it wasn't. (I wish we could placeholder videos without placeholdering images, but that's a small point.) It's just this: I can't multitask when watching a video. I can't skim a video if it's not worth my cautious attention to the whole thing, or to determine if it is in the first place. I can't skip to the best part of a video (unless you tell me where it is). Videos don't have headlines; you have to watch for about 30 seconds (an hour in ~~dog~~ internet years) to get the gist of what you're seeing.

If you link me to a long article, I can spend 10 seconds or 10 minutes reading it, and decide at any point to stop, confident that I've gotten as much out of it as I want to. Or I can spend a half hour reading it, tabbing back and forth for long and frequent LJ/email/IM/blog/whatever breaks. Videos totally break my paradigm, and they're rarely worth it.

Thanks.

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I think Carolyn Hax's column should be called "Hax Me About It."

i pretty much ignore all videos at this point. if i suspect i might actually like it (somebody i know well is all excited about it, and actually describes it decently), i'll copy the link location into a file and go through those at a later time.

i also ignore links that have no more description than "oh, look here!". tell me why; or do you really think i adore you so much that anything you find special automatically becomes special to me? *gnarg*.

oh, and i ignore voice posts. i usually listen to music when reading LJ, and i consider it a written medium.

Yeah, I ignore phone posts too, unless I'm in the right mood and they're particularly short, commented-upon, and/or from someone I particularly want to hear from.

Except the super mario video. man, that was worth every second!