spending the occasional hour poking around Youtube can be amusing
Agreed.
there are things that just don't make sense in any other medium
Agreed.
an awful lot of content seems to have migrated into video where previously the same material would have been online in text form
Agreed. I agree with gerald_duck's illustration of other problems, too.
the spread of online video is one of the worst things to happen to the web for some time
Firmly disagree. The benefit from things that work best as video being available as video IMV considerably exceeds the (I agree with you, very considerable) disutility of things being presented as video which shouldn't be. My view is that it is far easier to translate things that are in video but shouldn't be into the desired form than it is to translate things that aren't in video but should be.
Like you, I would like to see the many things which would work better as not-video actually being made available as not-video, but when I add up the benefits and disutilities, my version of the sum comes up well in favour of online video.
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Agreed.
spending the occasional hour poking around Youtube can be amusing
Agreed.
there are things that just don't make sense in any other medium
Agreed.
an awful lot of content seems to have migrated into video where previously the same material would have been online in text form
Agreed. I agree with
the spread of online video is one of the worst things to happen to the web for some time
Firmly disagree. The benefit from things that work best as video being available as video IMV considerably exceeds the (I agree with you, very considerable) disutility of things being presented as video which shouldn't be. My view is that it is far easier to translate things that are in video but shouldn't be into the desired form than it is to translate things that aren't in video but should be.
Like you, I would like to see the many things which would work better as not-video actually being made available as not-video, but when I add up the benefits and disutilities, my version of the sum comes up well in favour of online video.