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"Currently, Americans watch 200 billion hours of television every year, while the total amount of time the world's Wikipedians have devoted to building the largest, most comprehensive open-source encyclopedia ever known is about 100 million hours."
-Citing Clay Shirky on what we do with our time. (via)
Wikipedia researchers gotta do research somehow, other than referencing Wikipedia.
And the Wikipedia creators spent about half of those 100 million hours writing entries about TV shows.
Hey, those annals of TV show episodes are handy.
While the TV show creators only spent about a half hour coming up with those shows.
I'd rather see a comparison of TV watching to What Would Tyler Durden Do reading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_Shirky
Couldn't find a link to his reality show, though.
Wasn't he 'The Commish'?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_capita
"Worldwide, humans spend 500 squillion hours putting cutlery into drawers, but only 100 million hours trying to cure cancer."
Just doin my part. TV watching, that is.
But what percentage of us spend that amount of time explaining to others that "I don't even HAVE a TV?"
How many hours are dedicated to making Woll Smoth homages?
"brilliant communications theorist Clay Shirky calls, in his book of the same name, the cognitive surplus"
Why does "brilliant communications theorist" sound like…wholesome snooker champion or….man with a 6 pack eating at Cosi every day.
WordTwist is still okay, right? Cuz that's brain food, right?