you should but technically one is trivial computationally the other  
much more complicated. Also text has clear standards. Quote marks,  
standardised referencing systems to indicate source, right down to  
year, page, and object, etc. There is no way to easily indicate this  
inside video.

In addition text is just different to video, they're different meaning  
systems and operate quite differently and so it means something  
different to quote text to quoting image and moving image. They're not  
the same things - that's one reason why things got quite intense  
around the lumiere discussion. It isnt' helped that while people treat  
their writing, eg email, as more or less transient and minor (scraps  
if you like) we still treat our video as whole, proper, mine, and so  
deserving of respect or consideration. We just treat them as whole  
finished things which we don't really let go of, whereas words are  
just, well, an ascii wake while we flow through the web.


On 01/02/2008, at 4:37 AM, David King wrote:

> Asked a slightly different way - what's the difference? What's the
> difference between someone's text-based words and someone's video- 
> based
> words? I'm thinking you should be able to "pull quotes" from both.


cheers
Adrian Miles
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bachelor communication honours coordinator
vogmae.net.au

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