'The problem may be that there's too much text'

I wrote earlier this summer that video wasn't going to replace text just yet. This interesting take from Brian Feldman suggests that video is on the march and that we may actually be suffering from a surfeit of text.

It's not that writing is dead, or that we've moved to a "post-text" world. In fact, the problem may be that there's too much text.

Of course, by writing about it, we are showing this medium isn't on its last legs - a point that Feldman himself judiciously makes. But he makes several well-argued points that will leave some text-oriented publishers worried. Do read...

We're living through the effects of an ongoing shift away from text and pictures and toward video as the primary product of digital-media companies, a break that even the best-capitalized media brands are navigating with difficulty.