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, 19 May 2012 09:18:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Interesting reading… – The Blogs at HowStuffWorks http://nynerd.com/sailing-into-the-pacific-ocean-garbage-patch/comment-page-1/#comment-486074 Interesting reading… – The Blogs at HowStuffWorks Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:56:33 +0000 http://nynerd.com/sailing-into-the-pacific-ocean-garbage-patch/#comment-486074 [...] Sailing into the Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch – “At VBS.tv we had read all the articles about this environmental problem but didn’t see much in the way of video. So curiosity and the challenge compelled us west to the middle of the Pacific Ocean to show what other people had only been writing about. We go all the way out ( 2 straight days on a sail boat) expecting to see a floating dump, looking for our money shot that will make us famous…” [...] [...] Sailing into the Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch – “At VBS.tv we had read all the articles about this environmental problem but didn’t see much in the way of video. So curiosity and the challenge compelled us west to the middle of the Pacific Ocean to show what other people had only been writing about. We go all the way out ( 2 straight days on a sail boat) expecting to see a floating dump, looking for our money shot that will make us famous…” [...]

]]> By: Bob Holness http://nynerd.com/sailing-into-the-pacific-ocean-garbage-patch/comment-page-1/#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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