One factor is reading speed, which that site mentions. If you’re a fast reader, you move around the net grabbing bits of information, somethings spending a few seconds on a page and getting a high-level feel for what’s there, other times spending a few minutes digging in deep, and in that mode hitting a video can feel like a brick wall. You suddenly have to slow way down and let somebody else feed you information at a least-common-denominator rate, and if you’re in a hurry that’s not always an option.

Another aspect of video I’ve heard discussed in Redmond often is the fact you need privacy or headphones. For people who share office space or spend many hours in meetings each day, those aren’t realistic options in many situations.

Video has its place, but I just wanted to go on record as having strong doubts that video will become the norm for business communication any time soon. Time will tell, but I think predictions of video replacing anything other than hours already spent watching other video sources (TV, movies) will look pretty amusing in a few years. Well-written and well-organized books, articles and web pages will no more be replaced by video than, say, novelists were put out of business by the advent of the motion picture.

I will continue to do that, although you can tell from the site that the accompanying blog post summarizes without repeating the same presentation and also has more detail, especially links and reference material.

I am practicing that. I want to be able to use all of the power available for digital authoring and blend it appropriately.