The public Internet now houses over 630 million sites, a number that is growing each month. And each of those sites can have thousands or millions of individual pages (CNN.com, for example, has over 47 million pages indexed on Google, and adds thousands each day).
Free access to all that information is, on the whole, a very good thing for society. More people can stay informed, more voices can reach an audience. Writers aren't constrained by column inches or page counts or the cost of ink, meaning stories can be reported with greater depth, with more multimedia or with previously unimaginable interactivity.
But all that flowing information can also present problems when people are unequipped with the tools and skills necessary to make sense of it.
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