Comments on: On the Road with The Walkstars http://gigaom.com/video/the-walkstars/ Fri, 25 May 2012 10:45:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: city of angels http://gigaom.com/video/the-walkstars/#comment-444323 Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:55:51 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/the-walkstars/#comment-444323 YouTube more reliable of burro-band network? Now that’s truly amusing:) Never mind the eternal quantity vs. quality argument. As a benchmark for “Web 2.0 technology” I’ll take an 18th century Franciscan friar’s hand-written diary over a YouTube post any day.

Need I remind you of the long-standing IETF RFC 1149 – “A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers” (1990)? Or the Israeli project that compared the reliability homing pigeons to contemporary packet switching technologies (2004)? A New Israeli test confirms: PEI (Pigeon Enabled Internet) is FASTER then ADSL:

Long Live The Tubes!

]]> By: Jackson West http://gigaom.com/video/the-walkstars/#comment-444322 Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:15:40 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/the-walkstars/#comment-444322 I actually did mention the mission trail to Peter, and it was news to him. The NewTeeVee news is that, unlike the early Spanish missionaries, travellers can now upload clips filmed on their journey to YouTube as a travelogue. It’s a lot faster than the old burro-band network.

]]> By: city of angels http://gigaom.com/video/the-walkstars/#comment-444321 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:08:50 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/the-walkstars/#comment-444321 So what’s special about this efforts other than it’s being performed by a few computer/internet geeks that are completely ignorant of California history?

For the curious, you can still walk the almost entire length of California by following the route established by Catholic Missionaries in the mid-18th century (1769). Each mission was originally built to be distance one day’s walk apart. Many of the original mission sites are still extant, and some offer lodging on-site (or very nearby).

Populist Overview from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_missions#Missions_in_present.E2.80.93day_California_.28U.S..29

Callifornia Missions Study Association
http://www.ca-missions.org/

California Missions Foundation
http://www.missionsofcalifornia.org/missions/index.html

Clearly “walking tours” of California offering far more detailed documentation than today’s standard videoblogger have been readily available for more than 200 years.

Frankly, I’d have been more impressed if “The Walksters” had partnered with one of the many California Historical Societies, in an effort to contribute to a “real world” community.

I’m just sayin’

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