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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 06:29:01 +0000
From: "Douglas Galbi" <Douglas.Galbi_at_fcc.gov>
Subject: information in action
Consider this question: how much new information is created each year?
Peter Lyman and Hal Varian have collected some interest data and done
some useful analysis on this question. See
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/
A different sort of question is: how much information is incorporated
into normal routines of everyday life? I've tried to examine this
question by looking at long-term trends in the frequency distribution of
given names. See http://www.galbithink.org/names/agnames.htm
These are two rather different perspectives on information. The
difference might be analogized to the difference between the size of the
library and the size of the vocabulary that persons use in daily life.
Douglas Galbi
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