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layout: post
title: TV watching vs. time to create Wikipedia
created: 1279672433
link: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/cognitive-surplus-visualized/
categories: 
- Web 2.0
tags:
- cognitive surplus
- infographic
- David McCandless
- Clay Shirky
- TV
- Wikipedia

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<p><a href="http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/cognitive-surplus-visualized/#"><img alt="" class="imagecache-fullpost lightbox" src="http://bmannconsulting.com/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/imagecache/fullpost/postimages/goggle_boxes.png" title="" /></a></p><p>from&nbsp;<a href="http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/cognitive-surplus-visualized/#">informationisbeautiful.net</a>&nbsp;(via <a href="http://twitter.com/MackFlavelle ">@MackFlavelle</a>)</p><p>Just &hellip; wow. <a href="http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/cognitive-surplus-visualized/#">David McCandless</a> visualizes a year of TV watching by US adults vs. 100 million hours to create Wikipedia, based around the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594202532/?tag=titb-20">Clay Shirky notion of cognitive surplus</a>.</p><p>Now let&#39;s add the hours that kids spend watching TV, and what they might create.</p>