Comments on: What Does the Internet Look Like? http://www.contentious.com/2003/11/30/what-does-the-internet-look-like/ Amy Gahran's news and musings on how we communicate in the online age. Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:14:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Matthias http://www.contentious.com/2003/11/30/what-does-the-internet-look-like/#comment-136 Matthias Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://contentious.com/archives/2003/11/30/what-does-the-internet-look-like#comment-136 Every blog I've been to has an entry on the new Opte images, every tech online news site has an article, my RSS feeds are full of it... This blog entry is a typical example of the redundancy I was writing about in http://blog.contentious.com/archives/000044.html : I end up receiving the same news item over and over again. Some argue that the frequency is an indicator of importance. That may or may not be true. To me, it's an indicator of copy&paste. And I have to skip over all those news items with no benefit whatsoever. Matthias Every blog I’ve been to has an entry on the new Opte images, every tech online news site has an article, my RSS feeds are full of it…

This blog entry is a typical example of the redundancy I was writing about in http://blog.contentious.com/archives/000044.html : I end up receiving the same news item over and over again.

Some argue that the frequency is an indicator of importance. That may or may not be true. To me, it’s an indicator of copy&paste. And I have to skip over all those news items with no benefit whatsoever.

Matthias

]]> By: dwh!{dezwozhere:blog} http://www.contentious.com/2003/11/30/what-does-the-internet-look-like/#comment-137 dwh!{dezwozhere:blog} Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://contentious.com/archives/2003/11/30/what-does-the-internet-look-like#comment-137 <trackback /><strong>Opte Project: What the Internet Looks Like</strong> Courtesy this post from Contentious Weblog, comes news of Barry Lyon's Opte Project, which uses traceroute data to generate a visual "map" of the Internet. This New Scientist article article gives some background. Most importantly the project generates... Opte Project: What the Internet Looks Like
Courtesy this post from Contentious Weblog, comes news of Barry Lyon’s Opte Project, which uses traceroute data to generate a visual “map” of the Internet. This New Scientist article article gives some background. Most importantly the project generates…

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