{"id":46,"date":"2008-09-02T16:37:23","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T23:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/2008\/09\/02\/reporting-reality-on-internet-growth\/"},"modified":"2012-04-10T16:44:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T23:44:41","slug":"reporting-reality-on-internet-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/2008\/09\/02\/reporting-reality-on-internet-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"reporting reality on internet growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since talking to NYT reporters is like playing the children&#8217;s game of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chinese_whispers\">telephone<\/a>, let me clarify: any developed region with enlightened government will make sure they and neighboring regions have decent network infrastructure so they  have good trading partners, for a simple economic reason: in the 21st  century the most economically valuable products will be composed of bits,  so nations who move bits efficiently will be at an inherent advantage. this hardly seems like news to me.  that this natural evolution is destroying the NYT and most of the rest of today&#8217;s mainstream media who no longer control the majority of distribution channels is a little more newsworthy, but i&#8217;ve never seen an NYT article about that. that the addressing and routing infrastructure is  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caida.org\/publications\/presentations\/2005\/arin\/\">not  capable of handling this growth<\/a> is also newsworthy, as is the U.S. government&#8217;s  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/omb\/memoranda\/fy2008\/m08-23.pdf\"> recent accomplishment in improving DNS security<\/a> in the face of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/27bstroke6\/2008\/08\/experts-accuse.html\"> tremendous obstacles<\/a>. but i guess the NYT has  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2007\/times-announces-layoffs-enforcement-hiring-freeze\">bigger<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/05082008\/business\/times_ax_falls_on_15_in_news_downsizing_109865.htm\">problems<\/a> than figuring out how to report news on the Internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since talking to NYT reporters is like playing the children&#8217;s game of telephone, let me clarify: any developed region with enlightened government will make sure they and neighboring regions have decent network infrastructure so they have good trading partners, for a simple economic reason: in the 21st century the most economically valuable products will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,14,11],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1838,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/1838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}