USAToday went from being an old school news site to something much different. Readers could now create profiles, comment on articles, vote to recommend articles to others (very Digg-like), etc. Unique visitors and page views aren’t spiking upwards, perhaps as USA Today and Pluck anticipated. There is no doubt that the Pluck products are very solid products, but perhaps news and social networking just don’t mix.
what did they expect? usa today is average in every way and reading it is a completely forgettable experience. good riddance
Assuming the survey method is credible — which is a leap, considering that there is nothing about survey size, sample makeup, etc. in the press release — I still have trouble with the result. A 1 point difference is meaningless, mere noise. Last month Google was ahead, this month Yahoo is ahead, and who knows what will happen next month. It’s just noise among searchers who wouldn’t know better search if it spidered them, doubly do when it’s demonstrably uncorrelated with search engine usage.
noise basically. sorry, jeremy. also, only 4 points difference between the players on a 100 point scale? that calls the methodology if there was any, into question.
As I mentioned in a earlier postRoy Fielding has started a ASF Lab for Web Architecture that is intended to be a place to work on documentation regarding Web Architecture. This includes existing protocol improvements and Waka a new HTTP upgrade. Waka is still in the head of Roy Fielding and the changes have been alluded to over 8 years in various ApacheCon presentations; in various Apache 2.0 design notes and emails focused mostly around the IO-layer and request-response processing chains in Apache 2.0; emails to rest-discuss and references to various draft RFC and previous HTTP next generation efforts – rHTTP, W3C’s HTTP-NG and Spero’s HTTP-ng.
2007-12-07:
Another reason to revise HTTP is that there’s a lot of things that the spec doesn’t say. The people who were there in the late 90’s understand the context, and those who have been around HTTP enough have learned to understand the thinking behind its design and the intent of its features. However, there’s a whole new generation of implementers and extension builders who haven’t been exposed to this. If we can document the philosophy of HTTP with regard to extensibility, error handling, etc., they have a better chance of understanding the right way to use it.
i want waka 🙂 2014-01-11:
I wrote up a wall of text about HTTP/2 tradeoffs. It makes for good bedtime reading, puts you to sleep in no time.
jQuery isn’t just another library—there are enough interesting ideas in there to teach even the most hardened of JavaScript programmers some new tricks.
In order “to prevent this heritage from disappearing,” a local planning and design group, calling itself Waterpower, “asked a series of Italian and foreign designers to make projects for the renewal of the deserted water and paper mills. There was one condition: that they take the ‘power of water’ as the poetic metaphor and technological guideline of their projects, turning the valley into an eco-sustainable environment.”
repurposing mills in Valle dei Mulini with architecture
conspiracy theories are everywhere because the means to distribute information far outstrips the access to good information. cue the transparent society
Non-verbal IQ has risen more rapidly than has verbal IQ.
Performance gains are smallest on the most culturally specific tests, and largest on the most abstract tests.
Performance gains, as they occur over time, are roughly constant for all age groups.
Problem-solving abilities have seen the biggest performance gains.
IQ is rising across all age groupsw hy we are now much more intelligent than our grandparents, by the discoverer of the flynn effect.
dementia rates among people 65 and older in England and Wales have plummeted by 25% over the past 20 years, to 6.2% from 8.3%, a trend that is probably occurring across developed countries and that could have major social and economic implications for families and societies.
if there is a flynn effect for dementia, this means life expectancy isn’t just going up, but what i would call useful life expectancy, ie when you are healthy enough to actually enjoy life, is also going up.
People over age 50 are scoring better on cognitive tests than people of the same age did in the past — a trend that could be linked to higher education rates and increased use of technology in our daily lives, according to a new study published in an open-access paper in the journal PLOS ONE. But the study also showed that average physical health of the older population has declined.
there may be a flynn effect for dogs:
“The big lesson is to recognize that dogs are smarter than we think, and given time, patience and enough enjoyable reinforcement, we can teach them just about anything.”
It’s true that dogs everywhere are doing things that would have been unimaginable in the Alpo era. Researchers trained shepherds and retrievers to sniff out lab samples containing ovarian cancer. Scent hounds are also being used to forecast epileptic seizures and potentially life-threatening infections. A black Labrador was accurate 98% of the time in picking up early-stage signs of colon cancer
Gregor J. Rothfuss 