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Friday, December 18, 2009

Americans consume 100,000 words per day according to new study

According to a new study published by the University of California, San Diego, Americans now consume more information than ever before. The study, aptly titled "How Much Information?" revealed that last year Americans consumed more than 3.6 zettabytes (or 3,600 exabytes) of information in their homes. By the way, one exabyte is about equal to all of the hard drives in the state of Minnesota, which has a population of 5.1 million.

Read the article here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/09/americans-consume-100000_n_386062.html

Here are some other interesting tidbits from the study:

Americans spend an average of 11.8 hours per day receiving information, which adds up to about 1.3 trillion hours of information consumption in a year.

Forty-one percent of Americans' information consumption time is spent watch TV, although TV accounts for less than 35 percent of the information bytes consumed.

Fifty-five percent of information bytes consumed in the home come from computer and video games. The study explains that this share of our 3.6 zettabytes is so big in part because modern game consoles and PCs create huge streams of graphics.

The researchers calculated that we consumed, on average, 10, 845 trillion words in 2008, or about 100,000 words per American, per day. (As the New York Times points out, Tolstoy's "War and Peace", for comparison, is 460,000 words long).

Are you surprised by the results of this study? Do you feel like YOU consume this much information? What are your residents spending thier time watching or doing? Comment below or e-mail us at info@recyclecurbside.org!

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Monday, December 14, 2009

RE3.org profiles new GreenERville campaign

Check out RE3.org's latest blog posting and tell us what you think about the new campaign!

http://re3org.blogspot.com/2009/12/partnering-with-city-of-greenville-and.html

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