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What is Perishable Press?

Perishable Press began as a virtual journey into the digital chaos of the blogosphere. While initially designing the site, we began posting a variety of content, primarily information related to the project itself. During the development process, as the site exploded into a frenzy of ideas, possibilities, and experimentation, we continued to post code examples, useful links, and tons of reference material. Slowly, as the site began to attract visitors, we began to clarify our scope, define our niche, and produce content accordingly. Currently, the site enjoys a steady flow of visitors, a growing number of subscribers, and a great group of contributors.

In its present capacity, Perishable Press serves as an online resource through which diverse multimedia projects, interests, and ideas come together as an integrated expression of creativity. Perishable projects include writing, drawing, painting, digital graphics, desktop publishing, website design, audio mixing, video editing, and digital photography. Perishable Press also features ideas and philosophy concerning the process of cultivating creative enlightenment, integrating creative endeavors, and maximizing creative lifestyles. Other topics involve subjective relativism, critical analyses, and, of course, biblical principles.

The general purpose of Perishable Press is to provide an open forum through which information is collected, organized, and shared. The information covered and presented via this website focuses on topics from several different perspectives, including creativity, artistic expression, inspiration, and criticism. From these perspectives writers explore the intellectual understanding of their particular creative endeavors, which generally involve art, music, video, graphics, websites, technology, and lots of philosophical contemplation and debate.

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Digital units and their relative capacities¹:

Byte: (10⁰ bytes)

A single digital character.

Kilobyte: (10³ bytes)

A small page of digital text.

Megabyte: (10⁶ bytes)

A small novel, or a screen-resolution digital image.

Gigabyte: (10⁹ bytes)

A symphony in hi-fi sound, or a pickup truck filled with paper.

Terabyte: (10¹² bytes)

One-tenth of the printed collection of the Library of Congress.

Petabyte: (10¹⁵ bytes)

All of the email produced in the world in one day, or about a half-million hours worth of television.

Exabyte: (10¹⁸ bytes)

Two exabytes estimated to be all the information generated worldwide in one year; five exabytes, all the words ever spoken by human beings.

Zettabyte: (10²¹ bytes)

Oprah Winfrey’s annual salary.

Yottabyte: (10²⁴ bytes)

Alot.

References

• ¹ Source: UC Berkeley, CNET News.com

Editor’s Note: This post contains the contents of the first version of the “About Perishable Press” page, which was online since the site’s launch in August 2005 until updated in June 2007. The content is posted with an historical archival date to avoid disruption of regularly scheduled programming.

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