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  • From: schampeo at hesketh.com (Steven Champeon)
  • Subject: [internetworkers] google buys pyra
  • Date: Tue Feb 18 11:33:56 2003

on Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 10:38:51AM -0500, Scott Lundgren wrote:
> >all there, though, in one place. What's "decentralized" about that?
> >That's about as centralized as you can get.
>
> I was thinking about the reporting/journalism aspect (lots of people of
> multiple viewpoints/experience vs. a news service) instead of the technical
> architecture.
>
> >Why? Google couldn't do this already, just by spidering the existing sites?
>
> True they could spider the existing sites. But considering what small
> percentage of the web is indexed, I would think it would prohibitively slow
> to spider across the internet noting when a blog is found.

Sure, but there are plenty of sites that show "most recently updated"
stats and link to the blogs themselves. weblogs.com, for example.

> However if you have a dedicated chunk of information you know are all
> blogs, then it becomes easier to index and see information patterns.
> What I would be interested in seeing is a zeitgeist of blogs, like you
> can see a zeitgeist of google's search terms.

You mean like Blogdex?

http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/

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>From ids at idisplay.com Tue Feb 18 11:43:28 2003
From: ids at idisplay.com (Edward Wesolowski)
Date: Tue Feb 18 11:54:22 2003
Subject: [internetworkers] nc.rr.com slow past few days
In-Reply-To: <5159FD44-435B-11D7-93B2-000393B8C5AE AT mmteach.com>
References: <3E521431.3010004 AT nc.rr.com>
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20030218113835.02077bd0 AT mail.earthlink.net >

I'm in Chapel Hill. I'm connected to Earthlink's server via the RR cable.
Haven't had any problem with slow email. Not exactly the same, but fyi.
Ed Wesolowski


At 11:09 AM 2/18/03 -0500, you wrote:
>Yes....
>
>I had to change my account settings so that my email program only checked
>every 20 minutes, otherwise an annoying "can't connect to server" would
>pop up every 5 min's.... only got mail about 1 in 10 times...
>
>Drew
>On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 06:08 AM, Rowland Smith wrote:
>
>>Has anyone else had trouble with the RoadRunner mail server being
>>abysmally slow the past few days?
>>
>>Rowland
>>
>>
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