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The New York Times’ Bits blog has an interesting post today about online video. It addresses a question about how long Web site users will spend watching video on their computers. The answer seems to be that they are committing more and more time to this Internet activity.When I first started doing video for the Web, as early as 2001, the conventional wisdom was to keep these news reports short — in part to keep the file sizes at a manageable weight so people could access them. Now, just about everyone has high speed Internet access and Web phenomena such as YouTube have made using computers to watch videos as common place as checking e-mails. I guess it would make sense that Web users would have more patience to stick with longer news videos as well.

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