Information Overload?

When my sister was about 13 she took part in an interesting experiment about the amount of information people can take in from different sources at once (basically a group of them sat in front of a bank of TVs showing different things and were then tested in a Crypton Factor stylee).  The upshot of the experiment, as I remember it, was that the younger you are the more adept at doing this you are because you have grown used to dealing with a multitude of information – a classic example being an airport!

So, I was interested to see this on Robyn’s Nest.

What I’ve read:

1. Saturday’s Guardian
2. Two local papers
3. Countless recipe books
4. Press cuttings at work
5. Christmas Pudding by Nancy Mitford
6. Started Them and Us by Charles Jennings
7. Madame Pompadour by Nancy Mitford
8. A lot of email

What I’ve listened to:

1. Radio 4 – it’s on all the time in the kitchen
2. Radio 1 – Nihal & Dick & Dom on Saturday morning

What I’ve watched:

1. Judge Judy – a secret passion!
2. Masterchef
3. University Challenge
4. Moving Wallpaper
5. Echo Beach
6. Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom
7. Men in Black 2
8. Shaun of the Dead
9. Jamie’s Fowl Dinners
10. Chicken Out

What I’ve surfed:

1. Facebook
2. Friends blogs (see blogroll)
3. Work intranet
4. Chicken Out
5. BBC
6. Number 10 Petitions
7. UK Parliament
8. Hansard
9. Gites de France

At least, that’s all I can remember (Father).  Which shows if there was anything else then I haven’t taken it in….

Filed under: Advertising, Blogroll, Blogs, Books, Films, Radio, Radio 4, TV

Cash Value

Writing about web page http://www.tnl.net/blog/entry/Doing_the_numbers_on_the_AOL-WeblogsInc_deal

My blog is worth $5,645.40.
How much is your blog worth?

I’d be lying if I said that I fully followed the logic and calculations…

But out of idle curiosity I thought I’d check how much the whole Warwick Blogs system is worth according to this theory:

$143,393.16.

that’s:

£80,962

From what I understand of the theory though this presupposes a commercial application.

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