I'm stopping contributing
Alberto Salvia Novella
es20490446e at gmail.com
Thu Jun 8 03:58:40 UTC 2017
Stephen Kellat:
> Within the strains of my civil service posting, even machine
> translated text is easier for me to approach than video.
Before I made video-responses widespread I wanted to warrant it wouldn’t
exclude too much people.
So I picked up a web-site which was English written, but had a wide
diversity of people from around the world, and made this poll:
(http://girlsaskguys.com/education-career/q2272280-do-you-understand-spoken-english)
It throws that about 92% of people in an English written website will
also be able to understand spoken English well.
Also the web-media format is incredible efficient at compressing videos,
and watching a video response will only take as much as visualising a
6MP photo.
At that point we can discuss that videos are longer to pay attention to,
but that's only if you choose to do a long explanation versus a minimal one.
The idea of making video responses came out because I realised that most
arguments which happen online, on a text basis, would never occur in a
face to face manner.
After sending around a hundred of messages in a questions and answers
board, where you can usually find political extremists and social
justice warriors, it shown that very little people would answer my
video-messages in a rude manner. Even when they usually did when
interacting with other users, and my points were as upfront as usual.
So even when text has some obvious advantages, those things suggests me
that video has hidden benefits. And perhaps it's far better suited for
having discussions with people you are working with than plain text or a
hangout, which is by far longer.
Not to say these emails takes me long time to write, compared with just
shooting a quick video. Instead of working, I find myself spending the
time trying to convince people of details that doesn't really matter.
Lately, when answering my latest message, I could had taken into account
that it would be rejected anyway if it was on video. But that particular
explanation had been way harder to understand on text, as it was about
the disposition of elements in an interface.
I'm usually only showing you the tip of the iceberg. That something is
short, unorthodox or casual doesn't mean it isn't well designed.
The papercuts logo, that circle with a heart origami in the middle, took
me 30 hours to design. Imagine if I had to discuss its design in depth
with someone. Take this email as specimen, took me 2 hours to write. I
need my life!
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