Jul
06I saw an article today about voicemail being dead and I have to agree. It’s time to let it go, with IM, SMS and Email, who needs it really? It’s an archaic form of messaging and it’s time for it to go.
Do you agree? Do you think good old voicemail should give up the ghost?
Jun
05I have thought this several times recently, but I thought I would solicit an opinion. Does it bother you when a web site as large as CNN has news stories on the front page that are only available as video?
This is today’s CNN page “above the fold”:
Green indicates images and ads, which are fine and understandable, red indicates video only content. Judging off the cuff, that means that viewing the front page only what, 30% is readable news content. I don’t mind videos as alternate content, but there were several news stories I wanted to scan that were video only. Scanning an article for anything interesting in 5-10 seconds is much better than having to watch a 4 minute video clip to get the point.
Not to toot my employer’s horn too much, but look at this in contrast to MSNBC.com
So the alternative here is 5 stories that are available as video alternate content, and one single video only story.
I guess I should have went to MSNBC.com first.
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