RE: Article in Wired

["Ken Masters" <kmasters@ithealthed.com>]

Hi All

Interesting.  I'm sure that the web, like all technology will 
eventually get phased out, but there are a couple of issues with 
the article that need clarifying.

Mainly, the graph showing the decline of the web and increased video
traffic.

1.If that is measured in Mb/Gb, then, naturally, because video is 
generally larger than normal HTML or XML, it will reflect a 
massive increase over other types of traffic.  The graph is given 
in relative percentages, and does not show if "web" pages have 
increased, or raw numbers of accesses.

2.I'll warrant that many people still access those videos 
(especially from sites like Youtube) through a web browser.

3.Given these, it's quite difficult to find out what they mean by 
"Web" - unless they mean only raw html pages, no videos, audio, 
even graphics etc.  If that's what is meant, it's an extremely 
narrow definition (and, at the risk of being offensive, is a 
pretty stupid comment).

Finally, if the web is dead, then why was the article produced on 
a (rather poorly designed) web page?

Regards, Ken

Dr. Ken Masters
Asst. Professor: Medical Informatics
Medical Education Unit
College of Medicine & Health Sciences
Sultan Qaboos University
Sultanate of Oman
E-i-C: The Internet Journal of Medical Education


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Article in Wired
> From: Joseph Esposito <espositoj@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, August 19, 2010 7:19 am
> To: "Liblicense-L@Lists. Yale. Edu" <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
>
> Important if cheeky article in Wired on the "post-Web Internet":
> http://j.mp/9XxSOD.  The thesis is that more and more Internet
> usage is taking place outside of browsers, hence not on the Web
> at all. This has large implications for scholarly communications,
> as many modes of dissemination are not open at all, but closed
> and proprietary.  The Apple iPad is Exhibit A.
>
> Joe Esposito