OFF: Krankschaft April Update

Jonathan Jarrett jjarrett at CORIOLIS.GREENEND.ORG.UK
Thu Apr 21 16:44:58 EDT 2011


On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Steve Pond wrote:
> Basically places like MySpace, and now Facebook allow people who would
> never have got to grips with FTP, Newsgroups, Gopher, writing their
> own HTML, text only mailing lists etc to upload photos & video to the
> web, without any technical knowledge whatsoever.. and that sadly is
> what drives their momentum, 500 million cat pictures.

 	Not just cat pictures, but well yes. I cannot see mention of the 
Internet being for cat pictures without plugging this splendid piece of 
work by an acquaintance of mine which tries to graph this phenomenon. 
Behold, the Venn Diagram of the Internet:
http://gnimmel.livejournal.com/90977.html
They now sell this via CafePress for anyone who might be interested:
http://www.cafepress.co.uk/gnimmel
Yours,
 	Jon

ObCD: Magic Muscle - _Gulp!_
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       Jonathan Jarrett, Oxford       jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
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