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Don't give up on the Written Word

I'm always interested to watch how new technologies and media are adopted by the Internet as a whole. The web has quickly progressed from pages of plain text to include support for images, various formats of audio file, video clips and even 3D worlds (remember VRML?).

As the availability of bandwidth has been increasing at an outstanding rate, so has the availability of video on the web. Website providers are practically falling over themselves to pour video content down the throats of their visitors. As I type this post I am catching up on some missed TV programmes courtesy of the BBC iPlayer.

Increasingly, content providers are making the transition to providing video based content in preference to more traditional, text and image based content. One noticeable example is the prevalence of video based tutorials.