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From the Ted Talk by Ryan Merkley: Online video -- annotated, remixed and popped

Unscramble the Blue Letters

To understand the world that live in, we tell stories. And while remixing and sirnhag have come to dfniee the web as we know it, all of us can now be part of that story through simple tools that allow us to make things olnnie. But video has been left out. It arrived on the web in a small box, and there it has remained, completely deosetcnicnd from the data and the content all around it. In fact, in over a decade on the web, the only thing that has caenhgd about video is the size of the box and the quality of the picture.

Open Cloze

To understand the world that live in, we tell stories. And while remixing and _______ have come to ______ the web as we know it, all of us can now be part of that story through simple tools that allow us to make things ______. But video has been left out. It arrived on the web in a small box, and there it has remained, completely ____________ from the data and the content all around it. In fact, in over a decade on the web, the only thing that has _______ about video is the size of the box and the quality of the picture.

Solution

  1. sharing
  2. online
  3. disconnected
  4. changed
  5. define

Original Text

To understand the world that live in, we tell stories. And while remixing and sharing have come to define the web as we know it, all of us can now be part of that story through simple tools that allow us to make things online. But video has been left out. It arrived on the web in a small box, and there it has remained, completely disconnected from the data and the content all around it. In fact, in over a decade on the web, the only thing that has changed about video is the size of the box and the quality of the picture.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
popcorn production 2

Important Words

  1. arrived
  2. box
  3. changed
  4. completely
  5. content
  6. data
  7. decade
  8. define
  9. disconnected
  10. fact
  11. left
  12. live
  13. online
  14. part
  15. picture
  16. quality
  17. remained
  18. remixing
  19. sharing
  20. simple
  21. size
  22. small
  23. stories
  24. story
  25. tools
  26. understand
  27. video
  28. web
  29. world