The document discusses statistics related to online content creation and consumption including that 290,000 words are written per minute worldwide, 12.5 billion words are created per month, and there are 10 million content creators and 300 million readers monthly. It also notes that over 50% of traffic on Gist.com comes from outside North America and 66% is in a language other than English. The document advocates that both timely information and code/people are important to find and understand online content. It provides a proposed formula for calculating a person's importance based on interactions and connections on social media and email.