I had such great intentions all this week to blog on numerous topics that caught my attention (yeah, yeah, I know what the road to hell is paved with). But, as you can see, I didn’t quite get to it. However, the Friday late calm has set over the office and the browser tabs are still open. So here’s a quick combined look at a few quirky items that caught my eye this week. In no particular order…

A Zettabyte Here, A Zettabyte There…pretty soon you have real information (my apologies to Senator Dirksen). UCSD issued a study on the amount of data American households consumed in 2008. Turns out it’s 3.6 zettabytes. Om Malik puts that into perspective saying “That’s roughly the amount of information found in thick paperback novels stacked seven feet high over the entire U.S. — including Alaska — according to UCSD estimates.” Looking at the breakout, there’s lots of room for video to come online with 41% of the time spent on TV (the old fashioned kind) and only 16% on all of the Internet.

A Billion Mobile Devices Accessing the Internet by 2013 That’s only 3 years away, but an IDC’s study says that’s when we’ll reach the “B” mark. And, it says watching video is one of the favorite activities on mobile Internet today, just like on the computer accessed Internet.

BT Says Video Increases Time Spent on Small Businesses’ Site BT is running a promotion with Cisco and their Flip phones to help small business put video online. They point out that “nearly four times as many visitors (59 percent) spend five minutes or more on a website with video than on a website without video (15 percent).”

Go Navy, Beat Army As our CEO is a Westpoint grad, I’m hoping this post is not a career limiting move. I’m a Navy brat and lived at the Academy for many years, so this game is special to me. What does the 110th football classic have to do with this blog about .tv and online video? Well, NewTeeVee informs me that CBS Sports is streaming it live online. What a great way to help extend the reach to all the many dedicated service men and women around the world. As John Feinstein described it so well in Parade last week; there’s nothing more inspirational that an Army Navy Game.