Lately many organizations such as the Online Publishers Association and Jupiter Research have been touting the growing success of paid online content. However, this rosy picture might be a bit skewed, according to experts quoted in a Nov. 1, 2003 Knowledge@Wharton article, “The Internet Content Conundrum.” It’s definitely worth a read.
Here’s my take on a couple of points mentioned in this article. (With a link to the original article…)
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, recently updated their “How Much Information” study — which attempts to estimate how much information is created each year. In short, 2002 saw the birth of five exabytes of new information, “equivalent in size to the information contained in half a million new libraries the size of the Library of Congress print collections.”
Most of this information is probably what we’d consider junk today — phone calls, TV commercials, etc. But in the right hands, over time, all this junk might turn to gold. I’m envisionsing a scientific discipline for the future: Electronic Archaeology…
(Full story, with links to the study and more…)
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