The reading by Lev Manovich quoted the editors of the Mediamatic  Journal as saying that “A growing nuber of organizations are embarking on ambitious projects .  Everything is being collected: culture, astroids, DNA patterns , credit records, telephone conversations; it doesn’t matter.”  The reading suggests that the World Wide Web is a way in which we store millions of data and we link it to other data – “therefore every website is a type of database.”  In the lecture Adrianshowed us a site called the faces of Facebook on which somebody had collated every single user of Facebook’s display picture and collated them in order that the person joined.  If you click on the photograph you are taken to that persons profile – thus it is a massive data base where information about the sixth of the world’s population is stored and accessible to all.