Online content is growing at an amazing rate. This presentation provides some context on the growth by expressing in terms with which most people will be able to relate.

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2. By 2013 the quantity of information on the Internet will double roughly every 72 hours

3. The amount of digital information created in 2010 will equal 707 trillion copies of the more than 2,000-page U.S. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed into Law in March 2010 Source: EMC/IDC

4. Today, 35 percentmore digital information is created than existing storage capacity Source: EMC/IDC

5. The amount of digital information created in 2009 grew 62% over the amount created in 2008 to 800 billion gigabytes Source: EMC/IDC

6. The amount of digital information created in 2010 will equal a full-length episode of FOX TV's hit series “24” running continuously for 125 millionyears Source: EMC/IDC

7. People see more than 34 billionbits of information each day – the equivalent of two books per day Source: The 24-Hour Customer

8. From 2003 to 2009 the average web page of the Top 500 sites quintupled in size from 93.7K to over 507K Source: WebsiteOptimization.com

9. The amount of digital information created in 2010 equalledthe digital information created by every man, woman and child on Earth "Tweeting" continuously for 100 years Source: EMC/IDC

10. In 2010, 95trillion email messages were sent on the Internet Source: Pingdom

11. Every minute, 24 hoursof video is uploaded to YouTube Source: YouTube

12. On average, 250 billion email messages are sent per day Source: Pingdom

13. On average, 92 million tweets are sent each day Source: Twitter

14. Each month, 2.5 billion photos are uploaded to Facebook Source: Pingdom

15. The amount of digital information created in 2010 will equal 75 billion fully-loaded 16GB Apple iPads Source: EMC/IDC

16. WordPress hosts 14 million blogs and 40,000 new blogs are created on the site each day Source: WordPress