Semple's Law

EUAN SEMPLE'S LAW: "If you squelch all noise, you ain't got no signal." The law arises after considering Leo Laporte’s observation on Net@Night and TWiT when Leo observed 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”. Euan and Leo gave this some thought, concluding if 99% of everything is crap, a very viable one per cent of all video generated for the internet is totally excellent. When you consider that six minutes of excellent video has been uploaded in the time you've spent reading this blog post, you're stuck realising that you'll never be able to watch all the totally excellent video minutes being uploaded for free view on the internet.

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Euan Semple -- "80% of everything is crap" on his blog, 21 Oct 09.

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