Web Environmental Protection
Environmental protection is definitely one of the hottest topics in the world. We may change our habit in our daily life to help. For example, use energy-saving bulb; minimize the use of plastic bags; recycle of wastes; do less driving; etc. Google is a pioneer in environmental protection who recently has installed solar energy systems. Ok, we all know about it. What I am going to talk about now is the Web environmental protection.
I am not sure whether the concept of 'Web environmental protection' has been discussed by others or not. My point about 'Web environmental protection' refers to the resources, I mean we should try to reduce the duplication of resources. The most typical example is the same article (same content) that had been published on countless websites. It is a big waste of the resources. Especially nowadays with the forums and blogs getting more and more popular, people can easily copy & paste to re-produce a same content article.
Think about it, although an article may only use a few kilobytes space on the web, what about a picture? a video? what about billions of people doing the same thing everyday? The duplication of content occupies a large amount of web resources. This is somehow a tremendous waste. This duplication also increases the unnecessary work of search engine and reduces the quality of search results.
So, if you want to recommend an article, a photo or a video, why not just give a link? This will not only respect the original author but also occupy less space on the web. If you really like it, you may also digg it. Let's do less 'copy & paste' and make good use of web resources. Everyone can do it, starting from trivial things, from your own blogs.
Of course people have a lot of reasons to disagree with my opinion. For example, the access issue, the integration issues, the media issues, the finance issues and so on. I totally understand. Here, I just want to say, let's try our best to protect the web environment.
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