http://jdg2008.blogspot.com/
A great set of pictures and history about the Rochester subway system and old Aqueduct across the Genesee River.
I can't wait to see how it all turns out after they refill the canal bed and rip up Broad street. javascript:void(0)
Friday, August 27, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Damnit Wired!
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/all/1
Have you all seen this? Wow, I tend to trust Wired for decent articles, but this is garbage. His graph actually implies that DNS and email are dying too.
He lists Facebook, Twitter, NY Times, Pandora, as apps, but they are all Web 2.0 apps, which are still hosted on web servers and 99% of people still access them via a web browser. If you look at what Google does, they are pushing to move EVERYTHING to a web browser. He makes it look like video traffic is the majority of what the internet is used for, even though the majority of that is through a web browser.
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/17/is-the-web-really-de.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+(Boing+Boing)&utm_content=Google+Reader
Rob Beschizza makes a great point when he alters the graph in his article to better show the incline in total data usage. Like he says, the wired article is presenting this as a percentage of a whole. Pulling a web page is a very small amount of bits, so the total percentage of traffic is going to be much smaller when compared with video. But if you count the number of videos compared with the number of web page loads, it changes everything.
And he seems to assume that everyone on the planet has a smartphone/ipad/etc... That is very wrong, there are still plenty of people using dialup internet (http://www.chacha.com/question/how-many-people-still-have-dial-up)
Have you all seen this? Wow, I tend to trust Wired for decent articles, but this is garbage. His graph actually implies that DNS and email are dying too.
He lists Facebook, Twitter, NY Times, Pandora, as apps, but they are all Web 2.0 apps, which are still hosted on web servers and 99% of people still access them via a web browser. If you look at what Google does, they are pushing to move EVERYTHING to a web browser. He makes it look like video traffic is the majority of what the internet is used for, even though the majority of that is through a web browser.
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/17/is-the-web-really-de.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+(Boing+Boing)&utm_content=Google+Reader
Rob Beschizza makes a great point when he alters the graph in his article to better show the incline in total data usage. Like he says, the wired article is presenting this as a percentage of a whole. Pulling a web page is a very small amount of bits, so the total percentage of traffic is going to be much smaller when compared with video. But if you count the number of videos compared with the number of web page loads, it changes everything.
And he seems to assume that everyone on the planet has a smartphone/ipad/etc... That is very wrong, there are still plenty of people using dialup internet (http://www.chacha.com/question/how-many-people-still-have-dial-up)
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