layout: post title: TV watching vs. time to create Wikipedia created: 1279672433 link: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/cognitive-surplus-visualized/ categories:

• Web 2.0 tags:
• cognitive surplus
• infographic
• David McCandless
• Clay Shirky
• TV
• Wikipedia

from informationisbeautiful.net (via @MackFlavelle)

Just … wow. David McCandless visualizes a year of TV watching by US adults vs. 100 million hours to create Wikipedia, based around the Clay Shirky notion of cognitive surplus.

Now let's add the hours that kids spend watching TV, and what they might create.

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Jerry’s Jimmy Wales Story About the Pope Benedict Page in Wikipedia§

In 2005, Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, gave a talk in San Francisco that [[Jerry]] attended. Early in the presentation, Jimmy laughed that he had just received a bunch of congratulatory emails, mostly from journalists, saying how impressed they were that Wikipedia had such a thorough page on the new Pope up so quickly. Watch this video to see what happened, plus the implications:

This story is one of the [[Rel8 Inspirations]].

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