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Re:The bandwidth-sync correlation that's worth thinking about by pwim on Wednesday August 05, 2009 @05:32AM (#743098)
I don't understand how twitter is more synchronized then a phone call or even IM, as twitter is not real time whereas a phone call is and IM can be.
Re:The bandwidth-sync correlation that's worth thinking about by mixmax on Wednesday August 05, 2009 @06:10AM (#743129)
Because it's basically a scatterplot he just made up. He's a marketer and not a researcher.

To use his own words you could say that his articles have very low bandwidth.

Re:The bandwidth-sync correlation that's worth thinking about by swombat on Wednesday August 05, 2009 @09:25AM (#743349)
I also don't get how a phone call is less bandwidth than a blog post.

This is a silly made-up graph that Seth should probably kept where it belonged: on the back of a napkin, in the restaurant's bin.

Re:The bandwidth-sync correlation that's worth thinking about by nudded on Wednesday August 05, 2009 @06:05AM (#743124)
I also don't understand why cable news has less value than just regular tv?