Have you considered that maybe the majority of/. readers simply doesn't want videos?
We came a long way with the Internet. The medium has the convenience of multimedia with the control of books. The best part of it is that I control how I consume. I can have/. open in a window to the side, or in the background. I can tab over there when something is compiling or rendering or uploading, check a story or a few comments and switch back to whatever I'm really doing at the time.
As such, every video - every video should have a transcript included in the post. People who don't want to (or can't) watch the video aside, what about *blind* people that can't watch the video (due to lack of plugins/permissions, not due to lack of sight d=)? No machine-readable text = no story for them.
It annoys me when I see actual news sites that don't include more than the headline when they have a video story. Oh, that sounded like something I wanted to read about. Too bad, we just have the video. There's nothing in the video that particularly lends itself to video, but we thought you'd like someone to read this story to you...
Anyway, hopefully any more videos slashdot posts will be videos for a reason. In many of those cases the transcript may not be that interesting.
Speaker puts iPod in Microwave. M
"Oh what wouldn't I give to be spat at in the face..."
-- a prisoner in "Life of Brian"
why at all? (Score:5, Insightful)
Have you considered that maybe the majority of /. readers simply doesn't want videos?
We came a long way with the Internet. The medium has the convenience of multimedia with the control of books. The best part of it is that I control how I consume. I can have /. open in a window to the side, or in the background. I can tab over there when something is compiling or rendering or uploading, check a story or a few comments and switch back to whatever I'm really doing at the time.
More importantly, I can ready car
Re:why at all? (Score:2)
As such, every video - every video should have a transcript included in the post. People who don't want to (or can't) watch the video aside, what about *blind* people that can't watch the video (due to lack of plugins/permissions, not due to lack of sight d=)? No machine-readable text = no story for them.
Re: (Score:2)
It annoys me when I see actual news sites that don't include more than the headline when they have a video story. Oh, that sounded like something I wanted to read about. Too bad, we just have the video. There's nothing in the video that particularly lends itself to video, but we thought you'd like someone to read this story to you...
Anyway, hopefully any more videos slashdot posts will be videos for a reason. In many of those cases the transcript may not be that interesting.