On 1 Apr 2007 at 19:09 -0400, Versageek wiki@versageek.com wrote:
Use Alexa's comparison feature to compare wikipedia.org and google.com, they seem to mirror each other quite closely in terms of the sawtooth pattern.
Interestingly, youtube.com shows a sawtooth pattern that's almost completely the inverse of that of google.com and wikipedia.org. This apparently reflects a distinction between "serious research and information" sites that are used at work / school (or that one can at least get away with surfing at such environments even if it's really for fun) versus "frivolous entertainment" sites that are mostly used at home in one's free time.
The fact that Sunday gets more Wikipedia traffic than Saturday could reflect the general cultural norm (excluding Orthodox Jews who strictly observe a sabbath from Friday night to Saturday sundown) where Saturday is the day people are out and about doing everything from shopping to partying, while Sunday is a day for relaxation at home; as a result, TV ratings are higher on Sunday (Sunday night prime time is a very popular TV night in the United States), and maybe people are also surfing the Internet more.
Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
On 1 Apr 2007 at 19:09 -0400, Versageek wiki@versageek.com wrote:
Use Alexa's comparison feature to compare wikipedia.org and google.com, they seem to mirror each other quite closely in terms of the sawtooth pattern.
Interestingly, youtube.com shows a sawtooth pattern that's almost completely the inverse of that of google.com and wikipedia.org. This apparently reflects a distinction between "serious research and information" sites that are used at work / school (or that one can at least get away with surfing at such environments even if it's really for fun) versus "frivolous entertainment" sites that are mostly used at home in one's free time.
Wikipedia does not generally have audio. A person who surreptitiously uses the computer at work to surf the internet cannot risk disrupting the office with the unexpectedly loud sound track of YouTube video. :-)
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On 07/04/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Wikipedia does not generally have audio. A person who surreptitiously uses the computer at work to surf the internet cannot risk disrupting the office with the unexpectedly loud sound track of YouTube video. :-)
When the Java Ogg Vorbis/Theora player is fully working and lovely in a free-software JVM (which will include Java itself soon enough), we can call that bit of Commons ... WikiTube!
- d,