Your Frightening Trivia Thought For The Day

April 7, 2008

So, I'm listening to Eric Schmidt, who's some uppity-muckety-muck with Google, it's a YouTube presentation I won't bother linking to, because, well, it's almost an hour long and it's about healthcare and I was watching it (sort of) for a writing gig, but Schmidt made a comment that I thought I would throw out for you to contemplate. Feel free to file it under, oh, say:

--Useless Trivia

--Oh, That's Interesting

--The End of the World As We Know It

--WTF et al.

Schmidt said that EVERY MINUTE, yes, EVERY MINUTE, 10 hours (yes, 10 HOURS!!!) of video is uploaded to YouTube.

He also noted that where the technology is these days, you could have a device the size of an iPod which could hold 84 YEARS of video. (Which he referred to as the ultimate frustration device, since you would only have time to watch it all after you were dead).

Depending on my mood, I'm going to file that one under either "Useless Trivia" or, more days than not, "The End of the World As We Know It." Because, after all, I'm like, really happy to know that we're using bandwidth and electronic resources to keep multiple copies of Starsky & Hutch re-run online right along with video of people's Stupid Pet Tricks.

Cheers,

Mark Terry