Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Late-breaking data (I did some new calculations...)

I.  Time spent with each type of content


In the first set of charts, we looked only at the number of times we choose a particular type of content, but that doesn't tell the whole story:  A 2-minute Facebook check is not really the same thing as spending 3 hours playing a video game. Figured this way, movies/TV jump ahead of social media, and video games jump ahead of text.


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II. Paid vs. Free, by content type
In the first set of runs, we had a single paid/free chart, but this gives an extra layer of information.  For this run, I broke content types down into three categories-- social media, entertainment, and news/info-- and asked how many times we accessed each for free, as opposed to buying (like a book) or subscribing (like cable TV)?



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III.  Web vs. Storage (disk/paper) vs. Broadcast
How much news do we read on paper?  How much music (and video) is streaming?  I left out certain types of content that pretty much only live in one place or another-- social media are all online, and books (at least for our group) are 100 percent in storage.  I left other "non-daily content" out of the picture too, because it's such a broad category-- everything from Wikipedia to Rolling Stone.  Here's how the rest shakes out:  

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What else should we try to figure out?  Comment below!

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