On a similar note, "Half Hour Video: Didn't Watch".
I'm not committing half an hour of my time to watching a video, when there's an excellent chance that it won't be telling me a lot I hadn't already heard in other contexts. If there were a written transcript somewhere conveniently available, I'd be prepared to read that or at least skim it, to see what sort of thing it was talking about for purposes of this discussion. I'm confident that I could get the general gist in a lot less time than it would take to watch the video, and in particular that I could skip over any section which I recognised as something I'd heard before without risking missing a new bit later on.
(I'm reminded of the LJ phone post mechanism, where the first person to encounter something presented in an inconvenient medium can type up a transcript if they're feeling helpful, so that the next forty-nine don't have to sit through the original.)
eta: sorry, that turned out more negative than I'd intended. What I meant to say was that I'd be interested to know what was going on in that video, but not quite interested enough to spend half an hour finding out, so it's a bit of a shame it was presented in that form.
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I'm not committing half an hour of my time to watching a video, when there's an excellent chance that it won't be telling me a lot I hadn't already heard in other contexts. If there were a written transcript somewhere conveniently available, I'd be prepared to read that or at least skim it, to see what sort of thing it was talking about for purposes of this discussion. I'm confident that I could get the general gist in a lot less time than it would take to watch the video, and in particular that I could skip over any section which I recognised as something I'd heard before without risking missing a new bit later on.
(I'm reminded of the LJ phone post mechanism, where the first person to encounter something presented in an inconvenient medium can type up a transcript if they're feeling helpful, so that the next forty-nine don't have to sit through the original.)
eta: sorry, that turned out more negative than I'd intended. What I meant to say was that I'd be interested to know what was going on in that video, but not quite interested enough to spend half an hour finding out, so it's a bit of a shame it was presented in that form.