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I’m much the same ... and I’m saying that as someone who trained as a TV journalist, once hosted his own tv show, put out 134 weekly episodes of a business vide

I’m much the same ... and I’m saying that as someone who trained as a TV journalist, once hosted his own tv show, put out 134 weekly episodes of a business video series, and even now focuses on putting out 1-2 videos (on businesses <500 staff in this economy) each week. As a creator, it’s laziness - I can produce a video in far less time than a quality article. As a consumer, I’ve started watching a few more video channels to learn from others - but would much prefer and retain information from the written word. The compromise I’m approaching: YouTube do a pretty good job of automatically creating subtitles. These are readily formatted so I can add punctuation, edit, and polish into something readable (and searchable). That also provides a text transcript!

stronglikedan 6y ago
> That also provides a text transcript! As someone who's used the text transcripts to "search" through Youtube video content, I'd say you're on the right track.
- JacobAldridge 6y ago
  Thanks for that. Here’s an example of what I’ve done - as ‘simple’ as copying the text into my CMS (Wordpress) and then polishing as I read through it with some headings and graphics to make it more readable - https://jacobaldridge.com/dont-waste-a-good-recession/is-this-a-dead-cat-bounce-april-may-june-2020/ https://jacobaldridge.com/dont-waste-a-good-recession/is-thi... Still a 30 minute exercise, but that’s now a ~5,000 word article on the subject plus graphics plus a video.
sradman 6y ago
> As a creator, it’s laziness Perhaps a tad self-effacing but the sentiment reveals a core truth: publishing a stream-of-consciousness video/audio artifact is easier than releasing a carefully planned and/or edited version. What we seem to be missing is the processes/norms for annotating, enhancing, indexing, editing these rough digital artifacts. I’m not sure what the value add of Cloudflare‘s scheduled content is. Some events, like press conferences, are one time occurrences. Some events, like Zoom or YouTube Live, involve multiple contributors or audience participation.
hinkley 6y ago
> As a creator, it’s laziness You can see this when you watch a short video or segment and the presenter stammered or misspoke and they couldn't be arsed to just do another take to fix it. As someone who had a bad habit of not rehearsing presentations before giving them, I now can't unsee that bad habit in others.

stronglikedan 6y ago

> That also provides a text transcript! As someone who's used the text transcripts to "search" through Youtube video content, I'd say you're on the right track.

JacobAldridge 6y ago
Thanks for that. Here’s an example of what I’ve done - as ‘simple’ as copying the text into my CMS (Wordpress) and then polishing as I read through it with some headings and graphics to make it more readable - https://jacobaldridge.com/dont-waste-a-good-recession/is-this-a-dead-cat-bounce-april-may-june-2020/ https://jacobaldridge.com/dont-waste-a-good-recession/is-thi... Still a 30 minute exercise, but that’s now a ~5,000 word article on the subject plus graphics plus a video.

sradman 6y ago

> As a creator, it’s laziness Perhaps a tad self-effacing but the sentiment reveals a core truth: publishing a stream-of-consciousness video/audio artifact is easier than releasing a carefully planned and/or edited version. What we seem to be missing is the processes/norms for annotating, enhancing, indexing, editing these rough digital artifacts. I’m not sure what the value add of Cloudflare‘s scheduled content is. Some events, like press conferences, are one time occurrences. Some events, like Zoom or YouTube Live, involve multiple contributors or audience participation.

hinkley 6y ago

> As a creator, it’s laziness You can see this when you watch a short video or segment and the presenter stammered or misspoke and they couldn't be arsed to just do another take to fix it. As someone who had a bad habit of not rehearsing presentations before giving them, I now can't unsee that bad habit in others.