Comments on: Sailing into the Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch http://nynerd.com/sailing-into-the-pacific-ocean-garbage-patch/ Truth, Justice, & Humor For All! Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:56:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Bob Holness http://nynerd.com/sailing-into-the-pacific-ocean-garbage-patch/#comment-233517 Bob Holness Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:17:02 +0000 http://nynerd.com/sailing-into-the-pacific-ocean-garbage-patch/#comment-233517 The great thing about the Internet up until a year or so ago was people, like you, doing this kind of stuff, writing up an article and posting pictures to the Internet so that people from around the world could stop and read at their leisure. Nowadays all this great content is being published in video form, which is great if you have oodles of free time or want something to do in the evening but is crap if one just wants to skim some articles to find something interesting or wants something one can keep to one side and casually read in free moments, rereading sections that are hard to follow or flicking over to an encyclopaedia or other resource when encountering new terms and concepts. Obviously people like producing video and the masses like watching it, but there is no substitute for a well written article: I only hope that, over time, publishers of serious video will accompany them with first rate articles for the rest of us. The great thing about the Internet up until a year or so ago was people, like you, doing this kind of stuff, writing up an article and posting pictures to the Internet so that people from around the world could stop and read at their leisure.

Nowadays all this great content is being published in video form, which is great if you have oodles of free time or want something to do in the evening but is crap if one just wants to skim some articles to find something interesting or wants something one can keep to one side and casually read in free moments, rereading sections that are hard to follow or flicking over to an encyclopaedia or other resource when encountering new terms and concepts.

Obviously people like producing video and the masses like watching it, but there is no substitute for a well written article: I only hope that, over time, publishers of serious video will accompany them with first rate articles for the rest of us.

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