There are a lot of pictures of happy cats!

According the the website PetaPixel Facebook has over 240 billion photos on its servers — that’s billion… with a “b” — and every day about 350 million more are added. Although some of those might be gems I am sure a lot of the images are photos of the family cat/dog or my lunch today.

It just goes to show how digital photography is changing the amount of information we collect.
The only down side is that a lot of those images are not worth the storage space they take up.

Data! Data! Data!

     When it comes to the amount of information our digital society creates the amount is staggering. Consider this quote from the Motley Fool.

"The last two years alone have created 90% of the world's data. Let that sink in for a moment. Every day, a mind-blowing 2.3 million terabytes of data is created and stored. This information age has created high demand for storage components, networking equipment, high-precision sensors, and new-age analytics."

A lot of that "data" is of course in the form of images. Given the popularity of Instagram, Flicker and other photo-sharing sites future historians should have a mountain of data to reconstruct the year 2013.

New Year = New Drive

With the start of 2013 I'm in the process of updating my backups onto another drive before adding a new drive to my Mac. I found a Toshiba 1TH USB 3.0 drive at Staples on Black Friday for $70.00. I plan on using Time Machine to backup the Mac on a daily basis while I continue to us the G-Tech drive as my photo backup.