I agree - why would I sit and watch a bloke talking for two minutes when I could skim-read a transcript of what he's saying in thirty seconds or so and have the

I agree - why would I sit and watch a bloke talking for two minutes when I could skim-read a transcript of what he's saying in thirty seconds or so and have the info to quickly refer to later? It seems a bit like a gimmick for its own sake. It's not like the sample video shown in that post was showing us how to do anything - it was just talk. Still, at least it's not as cringingly awful as those "video comments" that cropped up on blogs last year...