So, a Zettabyte is a thousand Exabytes, which, as I’m sure you know is a thousand Petabytes; which is a thousand Terrabytes; which is a thousand Gigabytes. Which I think means a Tettabyte is a trillion gigabytes. Anyway, by 2012 according to the rather excellent white paper, Approaching the Zettabyte Era from Cisco (.pdf here), about half a Zettabyte of data will flow over the internet each year. The main driver for this, as you might suspect is Video. YouTube in 2008, for example, is responsible for more data than the whole of the internet in 2000.They are predicting three surges in video consumption. The first - internet to the PC (which we’re in the middle of); the next internet to the TV (barely begun) and finally video communications.The net result is they’re forecasting that video over the net will increase sixfold by 2012. And, while we’re chucking around hand stats nuggets as a result: the internet will be 75 times bigger in 2012 than in 2002.

For those who just can’t get enough TV news - thanks to Andrew Finlayson at Fox Chicago for sending over this rather neat thing they’ve set up: LiveNewsCameras.com.

Basically a rather fab aggregator of TV news feeds from around the world. Heavily skewed to all the local feeds from the US, but also a decent selection from the UK (well, BBC World and SkyNews) and they’re looking for more feeds if you’ve got one you want to put on there.

Not quite sure that every feed works all the time (and I suspect some might filter out international IPs) and I can’t quite get their moderator (a ‘best of stream’) to play. But I like the idea so much, I just have to plug it!