tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455782214242472677.post1513556842092133577..comments2024-03-14T20:55:21.709+09:00Comments on Janne In Osaka: Twitter is a Conversation- That's Why I Gave Up on ItJan Morenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06834641501438709866noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455782214242472677.post-80499902852048570752011-04-04T21:08:20.340+09:002011-04-04T21:08:20.340+09:00I agree that video is pretty bad; all the problems...I agree that video is pretty bad; all the problems with flash in general and more. Hearing impaired and non-native speakers have a hard time with narration; you can't easily skim, jump around or otherwise set your own pace; and watching a video - perhaps with earphones to keep the sound out - is perceived as much more asocial than reading a text.<br /><br />And too many videos out there really are some web-equivalent of talking heads, where the material would have been better presented using text and pictures. That's why I very rarely link to videos here. <br /><br />The one I posted the other day is, I think, a good example of when videos are worth it, despite all disadvantages. It uses the format expertly to explain a dynamical system in just a few seconds; with text and images it would be very difficult to fully bring across the idea. Of course, it helps that it's produced by real professionals.Jan Morenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06834641501438709866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455782214242472677.post-63992610347583404552011-04-04T18:30:56.281+09:002011-04-04T18:30:56.281+09:00I also gave up twittering.
It's broing I think...I also gave up twittering.<br />It's broing I think^^<br />your photos are so beautiful as always :3Thesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16107293877127365528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455782214242472677.post-84216413981819113222011-04-04T18:22:33.510+09:002011-04-04T18:22:33.510+09:00There's no difference between the amount of wo...There's no difference between the amount of work it took my to embed that Flash-based presentation into my blog post, than the amount of work it took you to embed that Flash-based youtube video into the blog post before this one. They're both pieces of external content which exist mainly on a different website, embedded on our blogs, by copying and pasting some code.<br /><br />Mine has a transcript available if you click through to the host site, yours does not. I take care to make my hyperlinks accessible, you do not. I don't really get why you got so annoyed.Ned Potterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17687100444162753686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455782214242472677.post-4233824884370604882011-04-04T18:00:50.250+09:002011-04-04T18:00:50.250+09:00Janne, I couldn't agree more with you about th...Janne, I couldn't agree more with you about the overabundant, useless and often counterproductive use of flash. But that's what is taught in many a web design course, partly because html is supposed to be scary and partly because people want shiny websites where form trumps content. I mean, why do I have to wait for 30 seconds for a photographer's website to open when, in this day and age, displaying a couple of photographs should be almost instantaneous...<br /><br />As for twitter, I've always been afraid of starting to use it because I already suffer from information overload and because I know how disruptive these kinds of interruptions can be when doing something that requires concentration (writing software, in my case). So it was very interesting to read about your experience confirming my intuition about it.<br /><br />But now, back to editing and processing pictures. Break's over.<br /><br />ThomasAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455782214242472677.post-74050472805045410132011-04-04T17:20:05.248+09:002011-04-04T17:20:05.248+09:00You said "You would have thought an "inf...You said "<i>You would have thought an "information professional" working for libraries would have the minimal sense not to exclude disabled visitors or visitors using devices without flash</i>".<br /><br />I viewed the post containing the embedded Slideshare presentation on my iPod Touch - it was not displayed. However clicking on the title takes me to a mobile-friendly version of the presentation which can be viewed without use of Flash.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455782214242472677.post-13993261444856712782011-04-04T15:56:02.518+09:002011-04-04T15:56:02.518+09:00Agh, "communication professional", "...Agh, "communication professional", "information professional". I messed that up. Sorry - I'll change it. Still if you prefer another term I'll just change it again.Jan Morenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06834641501438709866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455782214242472677.post-79295306548095022982011-04-04T15:53:14.639+09:002011-04-04T15:53:14.639+09:00Hi!
I got "information professional" fr...Hi!<br /><br />I got "information professional" from your "who"- page, where you stated that "Ned began working as an Information Professional in a Customer-Services role at University of Leeds library." I figured the term (which I rather like) was a good catch-all label for what you seem to be doing. If you prefer something else I'd be happy to change it.<br /><br />Yes, I have a chip on my shoulder about the gratuitous use of stuff like flash. My main thought about your flash presentation was that it must have taken more work to convert it into a flash applet then embed the applet in the post than it would have been to simply cut and paste the original text. Oh well - I still read it, didn't I.<br /><br />If it's any consolation, it's much, much worse among photographers, who sometimes create their entire websites in some unlinkable, unscalable, untranslatable - and utterly unusable - flash-based framework. Probably due to a misplaced fear of having pictures copied, and a hard sell from the framework vendor. I wonder if those photographers ever realize just how many sales they miss simply because potential clients can't navigate their sites, and can't share picture links with other decision-makers.<br /><br /><br />About Twitter: I didn't really discuss this in detail - my posts get long and windy as it is - but my inspiration was to use this for work, and follow collaborators and other people in my field. I belong at the "ooohh, shiny!!"-end of the focusing ability scale, however, so the constant stream of snippets quickly proved too distracting to me. Even if it's on topic, it's still a distraction.<br /><br />Part of the problem is the short form. You get a tantalizing URL-shortened link with a few cryptic words of explanation. Not sure if it's relevant to me so I click, then read, follow another link, then look up some background on Wikipedia, then follow another trail... Suddenly it's six hours later with no work done, and I'm reading up on the mating behavior of elephants or something.<br /><br />But most of the issue really is the real-time aspect. The reason email works for me while Twitter does not is that email invites you to defer things. Twitter demands attention now. Stop what you're doing and read it now, react now, answer now, before it scrolls off the end of the page. Sort of like getting phone calls where people don't wait to hear if you have time before they start talking.<br /><br />It works for many people, evidently. It doesn't work for me.Jan Morenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06834641501438709866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455782214242472677.post-77093897457557798942011-04-04T15:23:02.705+09:002011-04-04T15:23:02.705+09:00Hey, interesting post. I'm not a communication...Hey, interesting post. I'm not a communication professional, not sure where you got that from, but I do consider accessibility when I'm writing my blog. In this instance the post was really just an incidental post - the point was the presentation itself, which was embedded from Slideshare because that's where it was hosted. I didn't think to myself "I'll post something in flash", I thought, "I should blog about that presentation," - but most people will have seen it via slideshare rather than my blog, that's what its hosted on, and that uses Flash. If Slideshare ever stops relying on Flash, that'd be lovely.<br /><br />For full accessibility I should have included a transcript of the slides, but it was just a quick post which will be read by a small ammount of people so I didn't, because you can always click the link to view it on Slideshare which *does* have the transcript. <br /><br />As I said in the slides, I don't think following people you know on Twitter is the best way forward. Better to follow people who have interesting things to say with regard to your professional acitivities. Then it's less 'over-heard at a party' and more useful and productive.Ned Potterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17687100444162753686noreply@blogger.com