Lesson 4 - Review Websites

WEBSITES - review the following sites:

"How Much Information?"
How Much Information

This study from UCBerkeley estimates the quantity of new information produced each year. As this study makes clear, there is a massive amount of information out there to be organized.

-My take on this site first theres too much open unused real estate/too much white space... so poorly designed visually. And whats with all the question mark icons in the text??
exabyte=An exabyte (derived from the SI prefix exa-) is a unit of information or computer storage equal to one quintillion bytes (short scale). It is commonly abbreviated EB. When used with byte multiples, the unit indicates a power of 1000=a new word for me...interesting...sounds like quite alot....

The statistical information about the amount of things/info being stored and the data about it increasing - amazing and scary at the same time. Can we handle this? Can we handle what the future holds for storing data?

Print, film, magnetic, and optical storage media produced about 5 exabytes of new information in 2002. Ninety-two percent of the new information was stored on magnetic media, mostly in hard disks.

Table 1.1 is great. I for sure bookmarked this website for this information alone.
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PEW Internet & American Life Project
Pew

This site is a national research project detailing many important aspects of Internet (and Internet related technologies) adoption and usage.

PEW=nonprofit "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. The Project produces reports exploring the impact of the internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life.

Layout and design visually looks great. The side index Very interesting compilation of information about information gathered and otherwise.

I particularly liked that fact that this group is focused on research pertaining the internet, the digital divide and usage. Amazing the amount of data and research they have done.
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CIADA
CIADA

This site is a global Internet research firm. In particular, check out their Internet topography maps. While it is not necessary for IA's to understand Internet Infrastructure from an engineering point of view, it is a good idea to be aware of just how massive and global the Internet is.

Okay I love the logo and design but don't like the tiny font links. It's hard to read for us folks that already have to wear computer glasses.

The typography map is very complex full of information that has so tiny of font I can't read it...yikes! But I uploaded the pic for the blog. There are sections of Papers, Blogs, and New..

The IPv6 Topology Dataset contains information useful for studying the IP- and AS-topology of the IPv6 Internet. The focus of this measurement is on discovering topology and not on finding responding destinations. A globally distributed set of Archipelago (Ark) monitors has continuously collected this data since December 12, 2008.

Analysis of Saphire Worm=this section has information and studies on self-propagating malicious code that exploits the vulnerability-worms or viruses.

Of course, I clicked on Animation but it just blinks...I thought maybe it would have an anmimated trail of a virus or something.