Internet 2009 in numbers

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 – New email users since the year [...]

January 25th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: Social media, stuff, technology | Leave a comment

If you printed Twitter – brilliant infographic

Infographic by Cartridge Save for printer cartridges

Posted via web from Tony Watkins

January 20th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Social media, stuff | Leave a comment

Evangelism in a Digital Age

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 Digital Age
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November 23rd, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Christian, Social media, Speaking | Leave a comment

Understanding teen culture

On Saturday (21 November 2009) I led two workshops at Good Book Company’s ‘Growing Young Disciples training day on youth and children’s work. The first was on Understanding Teen Culture. Forty minutes is a very short time to do anything other than scratch a tiny part of the vast surface which is youth culture. Anyway, [...]

November 23rd, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Christian, Culture, Speaking | Leave a comment

Twitter, the new shovelware | Media Guardian 10 Sep 09

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 Journalism Conference in [...]

September 10th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Social media | Leave a comment

Lifestreaming with Drupal

Simple presentation of the essence of lifestreaming.

via docs.google.com

Simple summary of lifestreaming (via @darrenrhill)

Posted via web from Tony Watkins

August 28th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Social media | Leave a comment

Posting threshold

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 last [...]

April 17th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Social media | Leave a comment

Twitter a risk to health as well as morality? Yikes!

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 [...]

April 17th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Social media | Leave a comment

Do Twitter and Facebook pose a moral risk?

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 [...]

April 17th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Media, Psychology, Social media | 2 comments