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I realize this doesn't have much to do with the talks themselves, but:

I feel like other people don't have this problem, but I'm really not a fan of the Pinterest-style content grids. I think it's really difficult to parse content on Chill as well as Pinterest.

My eyes sort of skip all over the place and I just don't feel comfortable sorting through the information. I get the same problem with the Facebook timeline.

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I have to agree but due to circumstances (expensive, capped Internet in South Africa) I'm even more put out by the fact that there is no indication of how many megs each clip is or at least how many minutes so I can do the mental arithmetic necessary to decide wether to click through or not...

I think my issue with Facebook Timeline is often the content is text-based. When it's more visual like on Pinterest it poses less of a problem to me, and can do the "washing over" kind of flow that it's designed for.

I agree with shashashasha that the visual nature of the content actually works well with this type of content. There is a bit of information overload that you refer to, but for me it makes the feed of videos (at chill) more engaging than a feed on youtube (straight list).

I'm not sure why, but i'm thinking it is because many people's brains are getting bored with the repetitiveness on internet and the information overload (combining thumbnails, comments, ratings) keeps it interesting.

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