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    80% of everything is crap

    DateWednesday, October 21, 2009 at 10:27PM

    On Leo Laporte’s Net@Night show he quoted the fact that YouTube has ten hours of video uploaded every minute of every day. He then quoted Theodore Strurgeon who claimed that “80% of everything is crap”. As Leo said, even if it is worse than that and 99% of everything is crap then this leaves one per cent of excellence. This means that every minute there are six minutes of excellent video being made available - more than we would ever be able to watch!

     

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    Is this Semple's Law?

    October 22, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterWhitehall Webby

    Actually I think I might have just tweeted "Semple's Law"

    It's about signal to noise. Eliminate all the noise and you ain't got no signal.

    October 22, 2009 | Registered CommenterEuan

    Great paradox. What you haven't mentioned is that one person's crap is another's tv dinner. Then you have the happy accidents of stumbling upon diamonds in the shit.

    October 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterCormac Heron

    80% eh? Maybe he meant life too?

    July 28, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterMary

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