Archive for February 5th, 2008
Video on a magazine’s website
The push to Web 2.0 is on everywhere, and at our company, a lot of people are hot for Web video. Everyone wants to design pages to accommodate video, we have people hunting down video applications, but not many people are stopping to ask where all these videos are going to come from.
Personally, and I hope my opinion does change someday, I’m not too hot for video. We’re having enough trouble meeting quotas for copy. I don’t think readers want to tune in to hear me drone on about something just to meet some Web standard. Plus, I don’t want to be on camera.
Sure, we could interview people/readers for our Web video, but our company isn’t set up with the budget, personnel or training for this type of work.
And I don’t watch too much online video, anyway. I find video players have compatibility issues about 60 percent of the time. I’d much rather just read than have to watch. Unless it’s the talking baby commercial from Super Bowl Sunday.