The Art of Information

As the tech and business worlds breathe a collective sigh of relief and excitement over Apple’s unveiling today of its much-hyped and greatly-anticipated tablet device, the real work begins – namely selling the device and creating a ecosystem of content for it. All this talk about the device itself is not surprising, but what struck [...]

Lots of people got one of Apple’s lovely products during the company’s “best quarter ever” in Q4 2009, the company announced today. Apple sold 3.4 million Macs in Q4 of 2009, 8.7 million iPhones, and all this while still moving 21 million iPods. Economic downturn? Maybe in Redmond, but not in Cupertino! The next big [...]

In 2008 Americans consumed 3.6 Zettabytes (that’s 10 to the 21st power bytes or 3,600,000,000,000 Gigabytes, of information. That’s equivalent to filling 14.5 Million hard drives of an average 250GB capacity. The most shocking fact? This measurement ONLY represents information “consumed”, not created, and doesn’t include work-related information, only personal or at-home usage.

If you haven’t figured it out already, I’m a big fan of Macs and Apple and run my personal and professional lives on Apple products. I’m also an “informationista” – my silly word for  a student of the explosion of digital information and the transformation our lives, businesses, and world is in the midst of. [...]

This week’s installment of my favorite infographic series finds much of the nation locked in a cold snap with many of us still digging out of the holiday’s mental cobwebs. So, what’s good on a cold Friday afternoon?

Happy New Year and may you have a healthy, productive, and fun 2010. Before we look forward in this new year and decade, let’s glance backwards over our collective shoulders. We tend to lose context during gradual evolutions, (our taxes going up 1% annually for 20 years is scarcely noticed but a 20% jump from [...]