Here's a transcript of the video, especially for those of you who can't wait to know what Ned said, but prefer to read it, instead of viewing it on YouTube:
https://steemit.com/smt/@fitzgibbon/when-ned-answers-questions-about-smart-media-tokens-transcript
As for my personal answer to the last part of the video, what I think about video as medium, well, it's great! Nothing conveys the message better, I think.
But, sometimes, you're in the middle of something when you just can't watch a video (like being inside a crowded bar when the Netherlands' soccer team plays a game, which happened to me just this evening). At these moments you really want to know what was said in the video, without having to open it. Also, for people without a great internet connection, who are tuned in to Steemit via their mobile with limited bandwidth this could also apply:
Posting the video with a transcript below it would be nice.
Cool, doing transcripts as well so nice to see!
Mine are almost fully automated, I'd be interested on how you do it.
Manually.
But boy, he talks fast!
It's a very short video though, so no problem there, but I hope he'll include these in new editions of this back and forth communication :)
Oh did you know you can copy paste it from YouTube? Open Transcript if it is available. Or use downsub.com but then you have to get rid of the html tags. sed 's/<(^<)>//g' will do IIRC or check regexr.com
Or maybe you just don't want to let Youtube know you watched that video.