Earth Notes: RSS Podcast Feed Efficiency Sonification 1
Updated 2024-07-01.Sonification: sounding out the carbon cost of sloppy implementation... #frugal #greenSoftware #RSS
No voiceover: listening to the beat of heavy-handed RSS polling for nine weeks from to , with a guitar riff over the top, thanks to RN and our new band "One Gig Big"!
Transcript:
[By-hour GMT bytes and hits of RSS feed download traffic over 9 sample weeks in drums; 4 hours in a 4/4 bar, 6 bars in a day. Progressive rock guitar overlay by a real human.]
Show Notes
All part of trying to understand better RSS Podcast Feed Efficiency...
RSS feed efficiency as drum beat pairs with velocity proportional to bytes/hits per hour slot. For data up to , prepared with statsHouse-5.3.1.min.jar -feedHitsSummary
type 1, and with MP3 generated by GarageBand 10.4.11:
86s "20240530 byHourSummary1" Uploaded . Downloads:
With a tweak to play low toms for hits in skipHours
(ie night!), with V5.3.2:
86s "20240531 byHourSummary1" Uploaded . Downloads:
Using V5.3.3 exported .dat
output, in the spirit of [zong2024umwelt] audio-led rendering, via gnuplot
WIP script (snapshot):
![20240608 byHourSummary1](http://www.earth.org.uk/img/a/b/20240608-byHourSummary1.lb.l4087.640x160.m.png)
As California and Prog rock (debut tracks for "1 Gig Big" with RN):
114s "RSS 9 weeks CA rock OGB" Uploaded . Downloads:
Cover art:
![20240608 byHourSummary1](http://www.earth.org.uk/img/a/b/20240608-byHourSummary1.sq.l69942.640x640.m.png)
2024-06-29: Summary Type 2
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