Petabytes, group work, sedition and the Deep Web

I am going good guns with all this blog writing. I am enjoying writing again that does not involve Structuration Theory. My two new favourite things are to incorporate words into the title of each entry that when combined make no sense whatsoever to their linkages. Of course I don't link them, but the use of a title implies that there are links between these subjects. My other new favourite thing is called RBC: random blog commentary. I have been surfing blogger and adding comments to blogs as I see fit. The other day I gave a critique of a boy's need to rant about bad stuff that he apparently does and why he's a rebel. It's fun.
Petabytes: I love the idea of them. They are so huge its mental. It scares me that I have nearly used up my 40 gigs on this laptop and that is only 0.004% of a petabyte.
Group work: in particular having to do it for uni assignments when people in the group are in different states and conflicts and ideas must be hashed out via email and IM. Context and intent are often missing in online collaborations. I am not sure exactly what is meant by people who I have never met. It takes a lot of my effort to be able to calm down when I think that someone is having a jibe. Everything seems to drag on when it is an assignment for uni and not part of a work project you can work on for 8 hours a day or however much time you allocated to it as part of your work schedule. Unrealistic these are - but then again we do not have to do something professional.
Sedition: the new sedition laws are effecting creative expression and that makes my blood boil. I don't know why I am so late on this stuff, but check this article out. Here is a blog on sedition and updates on Philip Ruddock's refusal to look at the legislation, passed in haste last year.
Deep web: I feel the same about this as I do the petabytes. I'm almost breathless with the excitement of information that I do not have access to. Why? Is it cos I love secrets? Who knows, although I am hoping the astrologer I am going to see later this month might help me. At Monash there is a research project that will help bring the deep web out into the public access domain. My question is: as an internet user, do I care? What benefit is there for research data coming up on my google search? Perhaps I am being narrow minded and one of those fade the curtains type personalities. Maybe this means I am old and impatient with sifting through reams of information (how does this idea fit alongside my excitement at tonnes of information?). Who in fact cares?

I have another rant about university essays and standards for post graduate work, but I feel tired from contemplating petabytes, so I will do it another day.