Just a couple of days ago I was writing about the exaflood and how I thought that video was going to push us over the broadband edge. On Wednesday I got an email from Ann Higgins and the Pew Internet Life people about Pew’s most recent survey that indicates that 48 percent of internet users have been to video-sharing sites such as YouTube and the daily traffic to such sites on a typical day has doubled in the past year.

Wow – traffic has doubled. I think we can hear that exaflood rushing like water into the Titanic. (I was in Belfast last week, where the Titanic was built, and had to fit that in.)

Pew pointed out in their report that “Growth in traffic is linked to the spread of broadband connections. In our December survey, 45% pf all American adults said they had broadband at home and in this most recent survey, 54% of all adults have high-speed connections at home.”

I have to wonder too – what the results would be if Pew surveyed kids. I’m not even going to admit how much online video my kids watch a day – but it rivals how much TV they watch. After Club Penguin, watching videos is there favorite online pastime.