Information sickness, anyone?
Wendy M. Grossman's net.wars column in the Inquirer discusses the sheer volume of information we're dealing with these days. She links the How Much Information? 2003 survey done by faculty and students of the University of California at Berkeley. The summary of findings in the study contains some quite eye opening figures...
Until now I thought managing my around 200 GigaBytes of mass storage here at home was hard enough, but the global levels of produced information every year is really rising at a crazy rate. The challenge to keep everything intact is going to get harder and harder as time goes by. Interesting, and scary at the same time.
Attention search engine users
I bounced last month's stuff over into the archive, so if you arrived via Google or a comparible contraption looking at last month's archive page may reveal something you thought you'd find on this page.