I’ve been debating whether or not to use the YouTube annotation feature. It helps those who watch via YouTube, but doesn’t help those who podcast the program or watch with some other program (usually around half my audience).

I personally think you should annotate a link to http://www.alternatezone.com/eevblog into each video, so all the viewers can discuss in one place.

Don’t forget you can always edit your video description to include pointers to updates.

Finally, as for “taking too long to get to the point”, just edit more extremely: ruthlessly snip out every gap, filler, “and”, “uh”, “you know”, breath, and repetition. The effect is intense, compelling and funny at the same time. Plus you can squeeze in 2 more minutes of solid material, too.

- I wouldn’t trim the length any. Modern life with all of our gadgets and the internet has conditioned us to quickly jump from one thing to the next at the expense of critical thinking. I would prefer it if you take the full amount of time to explain your point. It reinforces the information in the viewer’s mind and there’s probably some other valuable information buried in there that will be helpful in the future.

- I wouldn’t go to vimeo. Their flash player isn’t quite as robust as youtube’s and doesn’t work with as many different computing platforms.

Otherwise, I do find the blog very informative. Keep up the good work.

I like the suggestion Phil Hobbs made (above).

Thanks!

Eric

The length of the videos is also pretty good. Too short and it’s over too soon, but too long and you lose the audience. Although since I just 5 in a row, length might not be an issue!

And maybe purchase eevblog.com ill throw in a donation if you need help.

A suggestion: how about a post or two on some of the gotchas in ordinary components?

I’m thinking about stuff like:

piezoelectric SMT ceramic capacitors,

horrible 1/f noise in thick film resistors,

surface leakage due to flux residue under SMTs,

Offset voltage weirdness in RRIO op amps,

charge pumps turning up in weird places (e.g. the 500 kHz ones in some Intersil dpots),

and instability in LDO regulators.

Some more chip-of-the-week features would be nice too. I suggest the AD5432 fast MDAC–it lets you use +-10V references while running off +5 and ground, and it has about 10x the multiplying bandwidth of most others. Great part.

Keep up the good work.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Greetings from Germany,
Norbert

Keep up the good work, I love the stye.

On the subject of thinking for ourselves, I think (as you pointed out in a previous blog)failure is the best form of learning.

I guess it takes a fellow Aussie to fully apreciate the way you present

I think we should all learn from our mistakes, but also learn from the mistakes of others, as they are just as informative. I particularly like the idea of forums, as a place of learning from others mistakes. Someone may popup with an answer that makes you question your thoughts and gets you thinkig.

Kat.

Keep it up though, people are always interested in reading about new cool things happening. Keep it short, sweet, and to the point because people on the internet are generally impatient.

Also keep up the requests for comments, because it really does encourage people to voice opinions that would otherwise not be posted.

Good going!

I love the fresh approach and like your “talking across the bench discussion style”. I am always looking forward to the next.

Eldon

If you want negative feedback then there are two tiny sticky points for me:
* Keep the frequency of “ya know” down to less than 0.1 Hz.

* DRY; Don’t repeat yourself, this has been much improved lately, but it really got on my tits for the first bunch of installments.

Fix those two and I’ll be even more happy about watching.

… oh and Rigol should *so* sponsor you, when my tek dies I’ll be getting one of those scopes:)