Wow. Worth watching! - Paul Buchheit

is it better than the transcript that was posted earlier? - ⓞnor

@nor - if you read the transcript already then the video isn't going to do too much for you - but he does a very good job presenting - Frederic

I never got around to reading the transcript. - Paul Buchheit

Video consumption is arguably far more time consuming than text consumption, but we're such visual/audio creatures that we still seem to prefer it alot of the time. - Ranjit Mathoda

It's a great presentation - I was just answering @nor's question if it was different from the transcript. Video has its place - so does text. If I want to understand something, I prefer text because it allows me to jump back and forth and go at my own pace. - Frederic

I pretty much always prefer text. I dream of being able to see a transcript/description of YouTube videos before deciding whether to actually watch the video. I also dream of tools that let me easily skim/skip/summarize/accelerate online audio/video. - ⓞnor

I too almost always prefer text. It's not the video part; it's the audio part that makes it hard to skim or multitask. - Amit Patel

A jog dial (or inertial scrollbar) and pitch-corrected speedup makes audio a lot more skimmable, especially when using thumbs from the video for texture and recall. That still leaves the environmental problem - audio requires headphones or privacy. Use closed captions? Develop good speech recognition? Learn to read spectrograms (or a transformation of spectrograms) directly? - ⓞnor

Thanks to Mr. Shirky, it's now a bit easier to deal with Cognitive Surplus now that we have a name for it. - Nenad Nikolic

myspeed is pretty great for speeding up video ( http://www.enounce.com/myspeed ) . (edit: it did actually work sorry -->It didn't work for this video though). My favorite part is the cognitive heatsink part btw. - metalerik