December 2006
Monthly Archive
Stupid drivers and the need for respect
MattE 14 Dec 2006 | : Communications, Marketing, Media, SMS, Web
OK, so a slightly off topic post….
I was sitting in my car at a set of traffic lights today, waiting for them to turn green. Cross traffic was flowing smoothly.
Coming towards me with lights flashing and sirens sounding came an ambulance.
“OK,” I thought, “The cross traffic will see him and the ambulance will be able to make its way through the intersection.”
Why podcasts and video online waste our time
MattE 10 Dec 2006 | : Communications, Media, Web
Before you say it, yes I know I fearured a video on this blog a couple of days ago. In fact it is partly because of this that I have been prompted to make this post.
Basically I reckon podcasts of audio and video are pretty-much a big waste of time. Why? Well here are a few reasons (I use AV as an abbreviation for audio and visual to cover audio podcasts and video):
1. On a bandwidth to information comparison - AV is a resource hog - There is a whole lot of data that is not needed to get the message across. Think of video in particular…if someone walks past in the background, that is a whole lot of data needed to show that which adds nothing to the information.
Six gigabit per second wireless internet unveiled
When you read this there may be hope for fast internet - of course wireless is one thing, but will the sources of the data be able to keep up??
In a world first, researchers from the CSIRO will be demonstrating what they claim is the world’s fastest and most efficient point-to-point wireless link this week.
The technology will mark a substantial step forward for wireless technology which, while increasing in popularity and general use, is being left far behind by modern multi-gigabit links.
Interview with Vanessa Fox from Google
MattE 08 Dec 2006 | : Web, Webmaster Interviews
Here is a video interview with Google’s Vanessa Fox on site maps (why they are and are not important) Page Rank (an interesting revelation!) and text to code ratio (big surprise here!).
It is 17 minutes long, so a fair bit of a download, but it is news from the horse’s mouth.
