Hi Jim,
re: "Does it seem to anyone else that video (despite compression technologies, a bandwidth-hungry service) is capturing a disproportionate share of total capacity, broadcast and wired?"
While that does indeed seem to be the case, I'd question if "disproportionate" were the proper characterization, or just "proportionately greater".
In any event, your right, of course, in that video is capturing more of the average Internet user's attention. Both the urge to give in to spontaneity and the perceived need for instant gratification has a lot to do with this, of course. But I have to wonder if all of the cherry-picking, time shifting and the demonstrated "preference" for short video spots and flicks is inherently what users prefer, or if those behavioral tendencies derive from a more Pavlovian set of circumstances stemming from the constraints of a model at its elemental level -- caused by the marketecture of the Internet, but not the technology itself -- that prevents longer-length, higher-quality video recordings on screens that are big enough and portable enough, from being "aired", as it were.
I obtained some interesting insights into these dynamics from the YouTube experience, as it was related by its co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen during a recent Charlie Rose interview. Note, the following is only the 'preview' of the interview. I shall try to find the full length piece and return later.
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