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The landscape has changed, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t high quality content available anymore. For example, a lot of content is on YouTube. That may or ma
by andyfleming 5y ago
The landscape has changed, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t high quality content available anymore. For example, a lot of content is on YouTube. That may or may not be someone’s preferred medium to consume, but there’s definitely good and niche content.
- gentleman11 5y agoIt’s weird that YouTube and Google is now synonymous with “the internet.”
- keithnz 5y agoI think a lot of expert content is now mostly video content. A lot of the time I'm finding I'm just typing things into youtube rather than google if I'm after some kind of expertise.
- hyperpallium2 5y agoThe information tends to be of lower quality (despite the love). For example, I wanted to know why left and right bicycle pedals are threaded differently. Three youtubers gave reasons that I could tell didn't quite make sense. But Sheldon Brown's website explained it ("precession"). https://www.sheldonbrown.com/pedals.html https://www.sheldonbrown.com/pedals.html Looks like he added this detail later - it's easier to increase the quality of information like this with text, than with video. Some people add VO later (jarring); Khan Academy re-does videos (breaking references between, confusingly). Most youtubers don't do either. Videos often have paid product placement, unacknowledged. It's very effective promotion, because it feels grass-roots.
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