I didn’t put up a links post this weekend, but I did want to pass along Danny Brown’s post 52 Cool Facts About Social Media. A sample:
37. You would need to live for around 1,000 years to watch all the videos currently on YouTube.
Not what I’d use my time for, but it’s a great bit of perspective. This social stuff is big and likely to get bigger, and I hope you’ll stay connected and keep on playing in traffic with me….
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Hey there Greg,
Thanks for sharing my post with your readers, really appreciate it.
You’re right – there are far better ways to spend a single lifetime, never mind 10-12 of them (and my math is probably a way off!). Especially with some of the crud that’s on YouTube…
But it sure does a great job of showing just how vast the amount of information we now have at our fingertips is.
And it’s only going to get bigger…
Cheers!
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Perspective like that is invaluable, I think. I was reading Clay Shirky’s Cognitive Surplus, in which he notes that the amount of time spent collectively on creating wikipedia seems like a lot… until you compare it to the amount of time spent by people collectively watching commercials over one weekend.
It will get bigger – we’re largely still in the infancy – and then it’ll change. How? Dunno! But I look forward to it….
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