Alertbox: Low-End Media for User Empowerment. The April 21 Alertbox is about keeping it simple – not a simple user interface, but simple media for the content.
In short, the fancy audio and videos are not worth the effort.
This reminds me of the old-time Alertboxes – nothing too surprising, but good to keep this article handy so that I can reference it the next time someone gets gung-ho on the rich media. [ia/ – information architecture news]