The twenty-four hours up to 2:00:00 PM PDT will be the first twenty-four hour period ever during which my webserver will have pumped out more than a gigabyte of data.
Hey People! Use all this information for good, and not for evil!
Posted by DeLong at September 18, 2002 01:56 PM | TrackbackPlease define what you mean by evil? :-) I'm totally kidding, of course.
I like your popping in a light post sometimes: it helps cooling down the pressure from more serious threads...
Congrats on the amount of data you are serving the electronic intellectual community (and probably beyond...) with!
Posted by: Jean-Philippe Stijns on September 18, 2002 02:28 PMWow!!! Keep it up, Brad!
Posted by: Nikolai Chuvakhin on September 18, 2002 05:08 PMAnd that doesn't include all the cutting and pasting I do with your stuff in my emails... Keep up the good work.
Posted by: John McKinzey on September 18, 2002 11:41 PMBrad
What a library you have created. Sort of a middle-class Andrew Carnegie.
Posted by: on September 19, 2002 09:21 AMWhile the quantity indicator is, I suppose, good, I'm worried about the quality. The problem with blogging is the amount of drivel it produces. I worry about you time allocation. While you find and post a lot of wonderful material, your "Thoughts of the Week" seem rarer and shorter and you haven't done a book review in ages.
I'm not complaining; this is my favorite site, and you do a great unpaid service running it. It's just something to think about.
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Well, it's our fault Jonathan, with all the comments we post on his blog, Professor DeLong spends his time reading and does not have any time left to write himself :-)
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The creativity of this site is quite wonderful. If this is not being productive, academic, artistic, I do not know what is. That this is a different sort of exercise than was possible a short time ago is fine, again is it different than the sort of running conversationbs that marked the brilliant career of Isaiah Berlin or J. R. R. Tolkien? Here is the possibility of Cambridge-on-line.
Posted by: on September 20, 2002 09:07 AMI've noticed that it takes quite a long time to download the front page. I saved it as a file to see how large it is, and it came out to be about 0.5 MB with images and 0.3 MB with images. That would take about 10 seconds to download on a typical dialup connection. Perhaps the front pages to shortened to make it easier on those of us who still don't have broadband connections. Currently, the front page has up to 8-9 days worth of posting. That could be reduced without much harm because I bet most people don't bother scrolling down after the first 15 or so articles. If you make the titles of articles in archives (which appear in the right column) more prominent -- maybe with a brighter color and larger spacing between titles -- that should be sufficient to lead people to earlier postings.
Thanks and keep the great work.
Ditto on the long page load time. I think that just having half or a third of the number of articles would be good.
Posted by: Adrian on September 23, 2002 06:53 AM