http://walt.lishost.org/2010/12/comparing-potatoes-and-truffles/ The library voice of the radical middle. Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:01:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://walt.lishost.org/2010/12/comparing-potatoes-and-truffles/comment-page-1/#comment-52439 walt Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:18:45 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=2819#comment-52439 Seth: Well said. The claim that raw traffic relates directly to significance or use is not a new one; I used to give a calculated analogy in some talks, comparing the bandwidth used by all viewing of a midrange TV show with all book publishing, as one example of why such discussions are absurd.

]]> http://walt.lishost.org/2010/12/comparing-potatoes-and-truffles/comment-page-1/#comment-52235 Seth Finkelstein Tue, 14 Dec 2010 02:03:34 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=2819#comment-52235 I’m reminded of the arguments over the fate of USENET, and the similar aspect where volume of bytes was a factor in the argument – including many, many, encoded binaries.

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