When I think of "delicious" I think of something like this (only much larger and with chocolate chip cookie dough pieces and a couple of extra cherries), not social bookmarking websites. But after some research and time spent with del.icio.us I'm pretty impressed by this Web 2.0 tool. I don't use a lot of bookmarks, mainly because I only frequent about 5-10 different websites on a regular and semi-regular basis - I know I'm boring. However, the Common Craft example made a lot of sense. I think my classes could benefit from more web material - either as direct in-class lessons/examples or for outside preparation/planning and a bookmarking site would really help. Again, these Web 2.0 tools overlap to some extent and I am starting to see obvious trends. For many of the tools, the biggest advantage is being able to access your information, documents, websites, etc. from several different computers - not just your home PC. That makes a lot of sense and seems to be the way things are moving. What I don't understand is where all of this stuff is being kept - as we continue to add more and more information to sites like flickr, Google Docs, Dropbox, etc. won't the Interwebs just explode? I understand how back-up drives work because they are physical objects that I can plug into my computer and it always tells me how much space I have left. But what about the web, is there a certain amount of information it can handle?
Wikipedia info:
In 1993, total internet traffic amounted to approx. 100 TB for the year. As of June 2008[update], Cisco systems estimated Internet traffic at 160 TB/s (which assuming to be statistically constant comes to 5 Zettabytes for the year). (1 zettabyte = one sextillion bytes - I don't know what that means but it sounds like a lot). It's amazing to think how fast the internet is growing!
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