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March 6, 2007

A Deluge of Digital Content

Cellphone cameras and digital-video devices have turned college students into campus watchdogs and have made YouTube a household name. In doing so, the tools have generated an amazing amount of digital content.

It would take 161 billion gigabytes of storage space (or, for those who like their standards of measurement more tangible, an equal number of iPod Shuffles) to hold all the digital material created in the last year, according to a new study. The study, conducted by IDC, a firm specializing in tech-related market research, argues that digital information is growing ever more democratic. By 2010, the company says, more than 70 percent of existing digital content will have been created by consumers. --Brock Read

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1. Why is so little of this digital content being created in schools? Until we turn school into an interactive medium it will continue to be irrelevant to the lives of our students.

   — Norman    Mar 7, 08:05 AM    #

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