* equals "recorded voice", for simple
Here is why:
- The only advantage I get over text is the voice of the reader or the interviewed guy. It's not an advantage at all.
- Text underlines what's most important. Voice gives me all, interesting and uninteresting. It's the sign of a lazy news reporter.
- With text, I can rewind or go fast forward in a blink, without even a mouse click. I can read the same sentence three times if I don't get its meaning easily.
- When I get a text, many paragraphs appear on my screen at once, so I can just take a two-seconds-look and tell whether the article is about a matter of my interest or not. With a podcast, I have to listen to it during thirty seconds or more to be sure.
- If I am looking for a precise subject, I can press Ctrl+F and look for a word in a text. The same is not possible in a podcast. In most cases, I can search the content of the text directly from my search engine. The podcast is not integrated with search engines.
- I am a fast reader, I can read and understand a text three times faster than a good speaker speaks it. (And if he spoke it so fast, I would probably not understand him...)
- When I read news, I have ten tabs open at the same time, a RSS reader, a few PDFs loading... Podcasts are using my bandwidth for something that could be done in a few hundred bytes! I call it abusing my bandwidth.
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I'd like to mightily second that; these are my exact thoughts.
ReplyDeleteThe only good argument I hear FOR podcasts is: but what about the time when they are in the shower? Driving? Walking the dog? - WHAT?? You are letting them be unexposed to your content for these times?
As a first step, I started revoking all my subscriptions that gave only podcasts, explaining why. I hope other users do the same and sites will notice it.
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