https://shadowspar.dreamwidth.org/ shadowspar - Dreamwidth Studios Sat, 27 Oct 2012 02:45:42 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios shadowspar personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/7043875/446148 https://shadowspar.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://shadowspar.dreamwidth.org/100614.html Sat, 27 Oct 2012 02:45:42 GMT https://shadowspar.dreamwidth.org/100614.html Maybe it's because I'm getting old and cranky; maybe it's the surfacing of impulsivity that I didn't feel I had, but -- as of late, I'm finding I have very, very little patience for screencasts, presentations, podcasts, and the like, unless they are very, very on-point vis-a-vis something I'm interested in at the moment.<br /><br />I can read something like 450 words per minute. I'm not going to sit through 100-150wpm speech for very long to figure out if I'm interested in what's being said, especially if I can find the topic explained better elsewhere in text. <br /><br />People in the tech world seem increasingly wont to use multimedia as the primary or even sole form of documentation for everything from software libraries to consumer websites, a practice of which I am not enamoured. <span style='white-space: nowrap; text-decoration: line-through;'><a href='https://skud.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://skud.dreamwidth.org/'><b>skud</b></a></span> wrote up an <a href="http://wiki.growstuff.org/index.php/Accessibility#Screencasts_and_videos">excellent blurb about such things</a> over in the <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://growstuff.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png' alt='[community profile] ' width='16' height='16' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://growstuff.dreamwidth.org/'><b>growstuff</b></a></span> wiki.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=shadowspar&ditemid=100614" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://shadowspar.dreamwidth.org/100614.html documentation screencasting multimedia accessibility Avicii - This is so good cranky public 9