Yikes! Read the following:

The most widely cited estimate of Internet traffic, from networking giant Cisco Systems (CSCO), suggests it will triple by 2014, to 64 exabytes a month. (Monthly traffic in 2006 was 5 exabytes, enough to store every word ever spoken.) By then, more than 90 percent of the traffic will be video.

Will Netflix Kill the Internet? – BusinessWeek

This,  along with the recent Comcast vs Level3/Netflix fight,  and the Google/Verizon talks of a few months ago,  has me worrying about many things re: Net Neutrality.  Particularly since I have aiming my ambitions for future incomes on Webcasting video.  And any organization that has such ambitions should also be nervous,  it seems to me.

Some good conversation on the Gillmor Gang around this issue,  as they talked about the wider topic of the shape that online entertainment is taking around us on the Web ad in the entertainment industries. 

So there I just plugged The Gillmor Gang,  and I do so because here,  and in several other topics,  they focus on so  many user/social issues that I have been trying to get across to church organizations via my writing here on the blog,  in my “social outputs”  (ie. Twitter, Facebook, etc.)  ,  and in person.  The church certainly has a stake in understanding issues of human behavior on the Web and in the mobile world.  The Gillmor Gang sooften enthuses me with their conversations because they are doing what I hope and pray the church WILL BE DOING.  The social features being “mash-up-ed”  into some very creative applications for connection is extremely important for us to recognize, study, and participate.

I envision a network akin to that of TWIT (Leo Laporte’s excellent “suite” of webcasts conversing about the world of online –and offline– tech).  But this network would be geared toward how the church can leverage these things.  There are serious theological issues at stake here as well.  The church at large needs to have a means to get some theological education nuggets in front of the laity.  Not everyone can go to seminary.  And how well will going to seminary today even help them consider what kind of presence the church would/should/could have in the online world? 

I’m still churning on this.  Time  for another upload and re-posting the next batch of thoughts.