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

UK cinema admissions reach highest level for seven years | News | Screen

19 January, 2010 | By Sarah Cooper

UK cinema admissions are at their highest level since 2002, according to figures released by the UK Film Council today (January 19).

Admissions in 2009 rose to 173.5m from 164.2m for the previous year and just behind the 2002 record of 175.9m. The increase was driven by the success of [...]

January 20th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Film, stuff | One comment

Rising superstition in Britain

According to a ComRes poll conducted on behalf of Theos, ‘70% of people believe in the human soul, 55% believe in heaven and 53% believe in life after death.’ Here is yet another example of the inconsistency of beliefs: belief in heaven is higher than belief in life after death. 5% of those who claim [...]

April 18th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Belief | One comment