As more and more video hits the web, I’d like to see links to videos become mainstream in a few places. Take news.google.com. Yesterday, I was tracking the news on Warren Buffett’s donation to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. To do this I kept returning to news.google.com, which linked to lots of online articles. However, it wasn’t until the end of the day when I watched the nightly news on TV that I even heard that there was a webcast of the announcement and that Warren Buffett was interviewed on Charlie Rose, both of which I missed.
It makes sense that I learned about these two video offerings on TV and not the Internet. Why? Because they were visually oriented and not text based and the visual world is owned by TV. It shouldn’t be exclusive–especially when it comes to breaking news.
