Re: Word-a-Day Bonus Round: screencast

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On Apr 3, 2008, at 10:32 AM, Shaun McCance wrote:
> Since we've got screenshot on the table, what do people
> think of the word screencast?
> ...
> Here are our options:
> 1) Boldly embrace this newish term.
> 2) Recommend a more verbose phrase.
> 3) Make no recommendation either way.
> ...

4) Recommend "video". It's much more widely understood, it's shorter, 
and it's more relevant to whether someone will want to access it.

(If you recommended the term "screencast", how much non-screencast 
video could a video contain before it could no longer be called a 
screencast? Who cares! How well a video communicates information is 
more important than whether it's a screencast.)

Cheers
--
Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/