{"id":25038,"date":"2011-04-17T10:12:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T10:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/04\/17\/technology-good-news-and-bad-n\/"},"modified":"2011-04-17T10:12:54","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T10:12:54","slug":"technology-good-news-and-bad-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/17\/technology-good-news-and-bad-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology good news and bad news.  Mostly bad news."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good news: The next version of Internet Explorer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2383640,00.asp\">will only run on Windows 7<\/a>.   That should be the end of Internet Explorer.<\/p>\n<p>Bad News: <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/support\/bin\/answer.py?answer=1233300&#038;hl=en\">Google Video is done with<\/a>.  It will stop existing on April 29th.  Well, I never used it so I don&#8217;t really care personally, but this is why <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/01\/amazon_dot_com_is_a_different_1.php\">I once said that things like Amazon and Google should be taken over by the government<\/a> and turned into utilities (you all hated me for saying that).  This is exactly like having private companies build all the roads, then one company decides to unbuild its roads to use the asphalt for something else.  If you happen to have spent time, energy, money, etc. with the assumption that this road you use will always be there, then you are screwed.  Same with Google arbitrarily deciding that it would no longer be the infrastructure that I assume some people were busy using.<\/p>\n<p>Good News: Google has a suggestion:  Let all the users who need the &#8216;road&#8217; each take a chunk of asphalt and see how that goes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you want to help archive Google Video, get some Linux machines running and join us in IRC (EFNet #archiveteam \/ #googlegrape)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/archiveteam.org\/index.php?title=Google_Video\">Details here. <\/a>   If you do this, does that make you some kind of chump, or what?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news: The next version of Internet Explorer will only run on Windows 7. That should be the end of Internet Explorer. Bad News: Google Video is done with. It will stop existing on April 29th. Well, I never used it so I don&#8217;t really care personally, but this is why I once said that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/17\/technology-good-news-and-bad-n\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Technology good news and bad news.  Mostly bad news.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[130,57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6vQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}