Comments on: A New Measure of Information Overload – In Feet http://www.basexblog.com/2009/11/12/a-new-measure-of-information-overload-in-feet/ Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:54:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Nathan Zeldes http://www.basexblog.com/2009/11/12/a-new-measure-of-information-overload-in-feet/comment-page-1/#comment-2695 Nathan Zeldes Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:36:47 +0000 http://www.basexblog.com/?p=1111#comment-2695 Great story - and a good visualization! Another way sometimes seen in measuring the paper wast is in units of trees... and that too is strongly visual. It would be interesting to find a similar measure for info that remains digital... since that too has a footprint on the environment, if only in the greenhouse emissions used to power the memory chips storing it, etc. :-( Great story – and a good visualization! Another way sometimes seen in measuring the paper wast is in units of trees… and that too is strongly visual.

It would be interesting to find a similar measure for info that remains digital… since that too has a footprint on the environment, if only in the greenhouse emissions used to power the memory chips storing it, etc. :-(

]]> By: Shari Lawrence Pfleeger http://www.basexblog.com/2009/11/12/a-new-measure-of-information-overload-in-feet/comment-page-1/#comment-2694 Shari Lawrence Pfleeger Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:46:20 +0000 http://www.basexblog.com/?p=1111#comment-2694 Your story about the 10 percent re-request for reports is consistent with a report Digital Equipment Corporation produced in the 80s. (Unfortunately, I no longer have a copy.) DEC tracked what was put in filing cabinets, and how much of that material was viewed again; the result was 11 percent. Your story about the 10 percent re-request for reports is consistent
with a report Digital Equipment Corporation produced in the 80s.
(Unfortunately, I no longer have a copy.) DEC tracked what was put in
filing cabinets, and how much of that material was viewed again; the
result was 11 percent.

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