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Oh man, the poll below that post makes me weep. Between a Youtube video and a Blog post the Youtube video is winning by a country mile even though a text post

Oh man, the poll below that post makes me weep. Between a Youtube video and a Blog post the Youtube video is winning by a country mile even though a text post would almost certainly be superior for people who want to know the details of how this was done. I happen to have a spare M1 Mac mini and a G4 at home so this project has my interest. The biggest question for me is how to interface the monitor.

jccalhoun 5y ago
Yes. It must be a generational divide or something. I see so many 20 minute videos that could be a 5 minute read and they have tons of views. I don't get it.
geerlingguy 5y ago
I try to take the approach "why not both?" with my videos... but I understand why many people don't. Writing a good blog post requires basically a rewrite vs the script, but it's worth it for me since I often prefer a good, concisely-written post. It takes as much time as at least the script-writing portion of producing a video, but sometimes dozens of hours less if just acquiring some static images and a couple illustrations for the blog post. But even then, the difficulty comes when people are enticed by popularity and/or monetization. Since Google basically gave up on RSS, and Medium is an insular (albeit large) private platform, the ability to grow an audience blogging takes more time, requires more concentrated effort, and at best leads to very mild opportunities (overall). (The number of people like me online blogging for the sake of blogging / sharing knowledge into the void is probably constant, but as a percentage has shrunk down to nothingness.) Compare that to YouTube, where syndication and subscriptions are much less important and a little knowledge of how the algorithm works can lead to influence and/or monetization... and that's where we are today. Blogging is not dead, but outside of a few communities it seems to be low on the relevance scale.

jccalhoun 5y ago

Yes. It must be a generational divide or something. I see so many 20 minute videos that could be a 5 minute read and they have tons of views. I don't get it.

geerlingguy 5y ago

I try to take the approach "why not both?" with my videos... but I understand why many people don't. Writing a good blog post requires basically a rewrite vs the script, but it's worth it for me since I often prefer a good, concisely-written post. It takes as much time as at least the script-writing portion of producing a video, but sometimes dozens of hours less if just acquiring some static images and a couple illustrations for the blog post. But even then, the difficulty comes when people are enticed by popularity and/or monetization. Since Google basically gave up on RSS, and Medium is an insular (albeit large) private platform, the ability to grow an audience blogging takes more time, requires more concentrated effort, and at best leads to very mild opportunities (overall). (The number of people like me online blogging for the sake of blogging / sharing knowledge into the void is probably constant, but as a percentage has shrunk down to nothingness.) Compare that to YouTube, where syndication and subscriptions are much less important and a little knowledge of how the algorithm works can lead to influence and/or monetization... and that's where we are today. Blogging is not dead, but outside of a few communities it seems to be low on the relevance scale.