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How Huge Is the Internet on an Average Day?
http://gizmodo.com/5422415/how-huge-is-the-internet-on-an-average-day
How Huge Is the Internet on an Average Day?
The internet is, like, big. So's this infographic showing just how crazy huge it is, and what 210 billion emails, 3 million Flickr images, 43 million gigabytes (on phones) sent on an average day really means. It hurts.
Infographics

Loading Unnecessary Data? ... Infographics
http://bit.ly/gdSXQF
How Much Time is Wasted on Loading Unnecessary Data ... Infographics

How much is a petabyte? ... infographics
http://bit.ly/h64HLI
How much is a petabyte? ... infographics

A World of Tweets
http://aworldoftweets.frogdesign.com/
A view of the world that provides a topographical image, but also enables insights into online media consumption in real time.
The online app visualizes geo-located tweets from around the globe, choosing from a variety of HTML5 based visual map views, labels and modes.

Information Overload, Then and Now
http://chronicle.com/article/Information-Overload-Then-and/125479/
Information Overload, Then and Now
Feeling overwhelmed by too much information? What else is new?
The amount of digital data available on the Web every day reaches records of mind-boggling proportions—now more than a zettabyte (1021 bytes) and presumably accumulating at an ever-increasing rate, estimated at 30-percent growth per year from 1999 to 2002.

Did You Know 4.0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8

Swivel
http://www.swivel.com/
As a member of the Swivel community, you will have access to all of our public data. We make it easy to share data and graphs with others through email or posting them to your blog. You can add your insights to data sets by leaving comments and asking questions, whether the data comes from your next-door neighbor or the World Health Organization.
Part of our mission here at Swivel is to make data accessible and useful, whether it’s for a private organization or for public consumption. From the corporate boardroom, to the voting booth, to the White House we envision a global community where people can share insights, become more informed, and make smarter decisions.

How Much Digital Information
http://freegovinfo.info/node/2992
How Much Digital Information?
Since 2007, on behalf of EMC Corporation, IDC has been sizing what it calls the Digital Universe, or the amount of digital information created and replicated in a year.
These reports estimate the size of everything digital. IDC looks at the installed base of devices or applications that could capture or create digital information and estimates (based on their research and "other sources") how much information was created in a year. They also estimate the number of times a a unit of information is replicated.

1.2 zettabytes in 2010
http://bit.ly/9ZMpuc
Digital information will grow to 1.2 zettabytes in 2010: IDC study
"The greatest challenges are related not to how to store the information we want to keep, but rather to reducing the cost to store all of this content" (75% of which is a copy), "reducing the risk (and even greater cost) of losing all of this content, and extracting all of the value out of the content that we save."
By 2020, more than a third of all the information in the Digital Universe will either live in or pass through the centrally hosted, managed, or stored in public or private repositories that today we call "cloud services."

A day on the Internet
http://twitpic.com/t18ml
A great visual showing some statistics for a single day on the Internet - number of enails, uploads to Flickr, tweets and more

Americans Consume 34 GB of Data Daily
http://mashable.com/2009/12/09/american-data-diet/
Americans Consume 34 GB of Data Daily

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.

Did You Know 3.0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpEnFwiqdx8
Did You Know 3.0 .... video presentation

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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?