[pjc50]

Not sure about articles, but people keep recommending multi-hour-long podcasts and videos far beyond the ability of any employed person to keep up with what they might want, so a summary is a useful tool to extract the salient points and possibly consider if something meets the threshold of being better than all the other hour-long things I might want to spend my free hour on.

It sometimes feels like media has bifurcated into hyper-dense (let me explain a whole field of law in a 30 second tiktok) versus hyper-fluffy (documentary with 30 minutes of material spread out into six episodes, with a recap before and after each commercial break), depending on whether the target audience has a job or not.

[reportgunner]

Sounds like you're suffering from FOMO if you feel the need to consume summaries of multi-hour content you don't have time to consume.

[acdha]

It’s also changes in market dynamics. Professional podcasters sell ads so they need lots of content, and the pivot to video or podcasters which advertisers drove means that things which a decade ago would have been a blog post taking 15 minutes to read are now an hour or more commitment for the same amount of information.

This is a common complaint here because HN is so text heavy that you’re not going to find many people here who can’t read much faster than the average speaker can present information.

[reportgunner]

Yeah that's what I meant by spam.

[acdha]

If that’s what you meant, you didn’t say it and it’s not spam by normal definition of that term.

[reportgunner]

Oh sorry I was talking about my other comment under this post, my bad.

[ziddoap]

Or they are just interested in the content?

[reportgunner]

I doubt it.