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Extraordinary counter for social media activity around the world. 270 billion comments on Facebook in the last year. Over 1.5 million hours of video uploaded to YouTube in the last month. 16 million iPhone apps downloaded a day. About 10,000 tweets every second. Fascinating. (HT Big Bible) [...]  Facebook has notched up 500 million users this week. The Guardian had data on where they all are, and a data analyst at Tableau, Ross Perez, put this into a great visualisation. Facebook500M Powered by Tableau via Read Write Web Posted via email from Tony Watkins [...] A good summary of where the Internet is right now, or rather, where it was at the end of 2009.
JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo. An interesting infographic which was posted on mashable.com: [Source: Online PhD Programs for MashableMashable.com] Some very interesting stats on a Royal Pingdom post. Here’s a selection of those that particularly interest me: Email 90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009. 247 billion – Average number of email messages per day. 1.4 billion – The number of email users worldwide. 100 million – [...] Infographic by Cartridge Save for printer cartridges Posted via web from Tony Watkins The second of my two workshops at Good Book Company’s ‘Growing Young Disciples training day on youth and children’s work. The audio may be available on the GBC website at some point. You can download the pdf by clicking on the menu button in the bottom-left corner of the Slideshare player. Evangelism in a [...] While newspapers may have flocked to get seen on Twitter, researchers have found that most simply use it to promote their own material. Academics Marcus Messner and Asriel Eford looked at 180 of the top US newspapers and television stations’ Twitter activity and analysed what was produced. Presenting the findings at the Future of [...] Simple presentation of the essence of lifestreaming. via docs.google.com Simple summary of lifestreaming (via @darrenrhill) Posted via web from Tony Watkins One of the reasons why my earlier blog failed – probably the most common one – is the threshold for posting to a blog is quite high. It means opening Scribefire, doing some copying and pasting, writing something, categorising it, adding tags and publishing it. The joy of Twitter, I have found in the [...] Daily Telegraph 16 April 2009 Physiotherapists and Repetitive Strain Injury sufferers have warned fans of the website to moderate their time on it – or risk it ruining their health. The calls come just a few weeks after it was announced that the internet phenomenon had now attracted nearly 1.8 million users. But RSI [...] Daily Telegraph, 13 April 2009 Today’s fast-paced media could be making us indifferent to human suffering and should allow time for us to reflect, according to researchers. They found that emotions linked to moral sense are slow to respond to news and events and have failed to keep up with the modern world. . [...] |
Tony Watkins is a writer and speaker on Christian faith and contemporary culture, with a particular interest in film. He is the Managing Editor of Culturewatch. |
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