I just saw another of Oatmeal's comics (
http://theoatmeal.com/pl/state_web_winter_2012/google_fiber)<http://theoatmeal.com/pl/state_web_winter_2012/google_fiber>
and
it hit me.
He's a swell guy, his comics are brilliant, insightful and influential (you
know he raised about a million bucks to buy ground on which Nicola Tesla's
used to have his lab?).

Maybe we could have a word with him and ask to kindly come up with another,
fantastic, comic about bufferbloat?

Maciej

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am not into politics. Really. A problem, though is getting the NN
> people on both sides to stand down, because the real problem was
> bufferbloat - and then work together to move forward, on an
> engineering, rather than political basis.
>
> So, incidentally, while I'm suddenly paying attention to politics,
> while trying to find some way to get this engineering effort funded
> for next year... I noticed a new lobbying group has come out of
> stealth mode, representing the web apps people, google, facebook,
> salesforce.com etc
>
> http://internetassociation.org/
>
> Anybody know these guys? I have long hoped to get these services aware
> that they needed to help fix bufferbloat if they wanted their cloud
> based businesses to work better.
>
> IF I felt like expending money on a marketing campaign to explain our
> issue, and get some funds towards fixing wifi in particular -
>
> the script to the video would look like this (leveraging the old
> "brain on drugs" meme)
>
> * This is your cloud based business - showing a fast, normal load time
> of some major website
>
> * This is your cloud based business on bufferbloat - showing a loaded
> webload go to hell of that site
>
> * This is your cloud based business with bufferbloat fixed -
>
> * Any questions?  - point back to campaign site
>
> Then create a copy of that 30 second piece for every one of the web
> service providers listed as supporting the above org. And as many
> others as possible. And get it on youtube. And buy some ads.
>
> I have no idea how much that would cost to produce professionally (?)
> (at a cut above what jg has already done), but I'm certain it would do
> some good, both in raising awareness and maybe gaining funding for
> next year.
>
> --
> Dave Täht
>
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