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For technical content, it looks like the burden of processing information was outsourced from people making content to people consuming content. Is it really sc

• ghaff 4y ago
  Podcasts work fine for a certain level of conceptual technical content. But the lack of visuals and the fact that the listener is probably doing something else at the same time limits how in-depth you can go. I've done interview format podcasts but, to be honest, I mostly don't listen to podcasts on technical topics myself.
• cxr 4y ago
  > Podcasting is one-to-many communication, so wouldn't it be more efficient if the 1 person who has something to say invested some time up-front to pre-process information to be more consumable for N people? Alternatively, a podcast where a fraction of its N listeners could do one thing each to contribute to how the thing is consumed for others scales even better (given a high enough threshold value for N). We've seen how beneficial rules of thumb like Wadsworth's constant can be, or how valuable it is to come across a comment that gives a timestamped table of contents/index for YouTube videos when the creator hasn't provided one themselves. A successful business built on taking that kind of intent and applying the wiki approach to it is probably inevitable.