> I wonder if these folks ever heard the expression "speed kills"? If
> we're data overloaded now, try the 10 gig files!
Web sites have been using pictures of words, e.g a 30K image of the
5-byte word "Enter" for years. Since the rise of U-tube, I see many
posts of the form:
Important information, see http://youtube.com/whatever.video
Any population that averages 24-30 hours of televison a week -- that
has done so for entire their lives -- has to be addressed with video.
They *want* video. Low signal-to-noise ration but high impact and high
comfort-level. This is not countered a bit by the vast quantity of
vacuous text on the net.
So, imagine boiling down everything you read on the net to the level
of a video script and then shooting it as talking heads, interviews,
animation, or just movies of cute kittens and beer-drinking babes with
the "content" in voice over.
Gotta have that bandwidth for video. Here's one element of good web
design [1]:
SUPPRESS THINKING. Television zombies will recognize their home
pasture. The more your pages look like TV, the more likely your
visitors are to be in a suggestible trance state when they look
at them. After all, dentists put TVs over their chairs to help
you fall into a trance state and forget that they're excavating
your central nervous system with a power tool. Make it work for
you, too.
Or am I just grumpy today?
- Mike
[1] http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/alien/guide.html
Which clearly needs updating.
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