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A digital library, free to the world (TED Talk)
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/brewster_kahle_builds_a_free_digital_library.html Brewster Kahle: A digital library, free to the world ... TED Talk Lots of examples about the amount of information in the world in different media forms. Brewster Kahle is building a truly huge digital library -- every book ever published, every movie ever released, all the strata of web history ... It's all free to the public -- unless someone else gets to it first. |
 
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Did You Know 3.0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpEnFwiqdx8 Did You Know 3.0 .... video presentation |
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An anthropological introduction to YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU An anthropological introduction to YouTube This video also presents some statistics about the growth of online media. Presented at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008. This was tons of fun to present. I decided to forgo the PowerPoint and instead worked with students to prepare over 40 minutes of video for the 55 minute presentation. Also see http://mediatedcultures.net |
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Information Knot
http://www.informationknot.com Informationknot is a resource for researchers and those trying to sift through lots of information. It includes tips on avoiding information overload, recommendations of authoritative sources and new Web 2.0 tools. |
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How can we preserve digital files
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jul05/1568 It took two centuries to fill the U.S. Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., with more than 29 million books and periodicals, 2.7 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.8 million maps, and 57 million manuscripts. Today it takes about 15 minutes for the world to churn out an equivalent amount of new digital information. It does so about 100 times every day, for a grand total of five exabytes annually. That's an amount equal to all the words ever spoken by humans, according to Roy Williams, who heads the Center for Advanced Computing Research at the California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena. |
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Say Hello to the World
http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/hello/ If you wanted to say hello to everybody in the world, how many people would that be? And how many languages would you have to learn? You would have to learn at least 2,796 languages and say hello to 5,720,000,000 people! |
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About the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/homepage/fascinate.html Fascinating Facts About the Library of Congress The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with nearly 128 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The collections include more than 29 million books and other printed materials, 2.7 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.8 million maps, 5 million music items and 57 million manuscripts. |
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How much new information is created each year?
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/execsum.htm How much new information is created each year? Newly created information is stored in four physical media ?print, film, magnetic and optical ?and seen or heard in four information flows through electronic channels ?telephone, radio and TV, and the Internet. This study of information storage and flows analyzes the year 2002 in order to estimate the annual size of the stock of new information recorded in storage media, and heard or seen each year in information flows. |
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Information: New York Times vs Person in 1600s
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=341789 Can you find the source for a fact I ran across a few years ago that that a weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information and data than a typical person in England in the 1600s was likely to encounter in an entire lifetime. The amount of information in the world doubled recently in just five years. It appears that the original source for the quote about the New York Times was a book called "The Cult of Information," by Theodore Roszak. |
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How Much Information Is There In the World?
http://www.lesk.com/mlesk/ksg97/ksg.html How Much Information Is There In the World? The Web has been growing 10-fold each year. Can it continue to do so and for how long? |
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