I'm trying not to let these overtake my blog, but they are coming so hard and fast it's not easy to leave them out. The advanages of video snips are visual variety and sounds that break the monotony of reading, voice explanations (which sometimes explain the obvious to the thinking-impaired) and sheer entertainment. The downside is that you can't scan them. You can't expect to "get the gist" of it; the reader/viewer has to invest the time it takes to grasp what's being presented. But I do like that a reader can skip or enjoy the embedded video, like flipping the pages in a magazine, without leaving the site. That's a big advantage that oversomes the downside. But enough of that. Here's the next one...
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Found this at 3Quarks, where Abbas Raza found it at Lindsay Bayerstein's who....well forget where it came from - just see it.
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