[WikiEN-l] Death of the sitcom frees up 2, 000 Wikipedias worth of cognitive capacity

[David Gerard]

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/27/death-of-the-sitcom.html

Clay Shirky has a unit of attention called the Wikipedia: 100 million
person-hours of thought. Television takes up 200 billion hours of
thought every year.

(And here I was thinking Wikipedia time came out of work time. Er, I
didn't say that.)


- d.