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Amazing activity in the world of social media

Tony Watkins — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:20:13 +0000

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)

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Facebook use around the world

Tony Watkins — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:59:24 +0000

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.

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Doctor Who monsters

Tony Watkins — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:24:54 +0000

This is a fabulous interactive infographic of all the Doctor Who monsters (not all of them are villains, really – the Ood, for example) since the first episode in 1963.

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The state of the Internet

Tony Watkins — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:19:44 +0000

A good summary of where the Internet is right now, or rather, where it was at the end of 2009.

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Internet 2009 in numbers

Tony Watkins — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:56:11 +0000

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 before.

81% – The percentage of emails that were spam.

92% – Peak spam levels late in the year.

24% – Increase in spam since last year.

200 billion – The number of spam emails per day (assuming 81% are spam).

Social Media

126 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).

84% – Percent of social network sites with more women than men.

27.3 million – Number of tweets on Twitter per day (November, 2009)

57% – Percentage of Twitter’s user base located in the United States.

4.25 million – People following @aplusk (Ashton Kutcher, Twitter’s most followed user).

350 million – People on Facebook.

50% – Percentage of Facebook users that log in every day.

500,000 – The number of active Facebook applications.

Images

4 billion – Photos hosted by Flickr (October 2009).

2.5 billion – Photos uploaded each month to Facebook.

30 billion – At the current rate, the number of photos uploaded to Facebook per year.

Videos

1 billion – The total number of videos YouTube serves in one day.

12.2 billion – Videos viewed per month on YouTube in the US (November 2009).

924 million – Videos viewed per month on Hulu in the US (November 2009).

182 – The number of online videos the average Internet user watches in a month (USA).

82% – Percentage of Internet users that view videos online (USA).

39.4% – YouTube online video market share (USA).

81.9% – Percentage of embedded videos on blogs that are YouTube videos.

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

Tony Watkins — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:20:37 +0000

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 international blockbusters such as Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince, Avatar and The Twilight Saga: New Moon.

According to the UKFC, the total UK gross box office for 2009 was $1.5bn (£944m), up 11% on 2008. Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince was the highest grossing film of the year taking $82.9m, (£50.72m), followed by Avatar, which has taken $67m (£41m) to date, and Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs on 35.2m. Three of the year’s top five films – Avatar, Ice Age 3 and Up – were 3D releases.

The UKFC figures also show that UK production spend was up last year to £1.6bn (£956.9m), compared to $1m (£613m) in 2008, and inward investment has reached its highest ever level at $1.2bn (£752.7m). It compares to $582.8m (£356.8m) in 2008 and tops the previous record of $1.9m (£1.15bn) in 2003.

. . . John Woodward, CEO of the UK Film Council said: “British cinema-goers are voting with their feet – they want to see big event movies, many of which depend on outstanding British talent and are made in the UK thanks to our reliable film tax credit. In addition, what is particularly encouraging is that the public appetite for low budget independently-produced British films is rising once again despite the blockbuster phenomenon.”

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Rising superstition in Britain

Tony Watkins — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:32:19 +0000

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 to believe in heaven don’t think there is life after death (the disparity is not found in London or the south-east, but is highest in the eastern region with 37% believing in life after death and 56% believing in heaven). So what is heaven, then? Is it Philip Pullman’s ‘republican heaven’ – a state of joy, purpose and connectedness we create here on Earth because, as he so often says, ‘there ain’t no elsewhere’? And what do all those people who believe in the human soul think it is? Presumably the 300 people surveyed who claim belief in the soul but reject life after death think it disappears at death. Do they equate it with human consciousness, as many humanists are inclined to do?

More troubling is the rise in superstitious beliefs:

Almost four in 10 (39%) of people believe in ghosts, 22% believe in astrology or horoscopes, 27% believe in reincarnation and 15% believe in fortune telling or Tarot, the research reveals.

The comparison with the 1950s is especially striking. In 1950, only 10% of the public told Gallup that they believed in ghosts, and just 2% thought they had seen one. In 1951, only 7% of the public said they believed in predicting the future by cards and 6% by stars.

That’s roughly a four-fold increase in belief in ghosts and astrology, and a doubling of belief in tarot. Interesting, given that Richard Dawkins and other atheists think they are driving superstition away along with religious belief (they see the two as the same category, of course, which they are not). It confirms the remarks of Mollie Ziegler Hemmingway in the Wall Street Journal recently:

The reality is that the New Atheist campaign, by discouraging religion, won’t create a new group of intelligent, skeptical, enlightened beings. Far from it: It might actually encourage new levels of mass superstition. And that’s not a conclusion to take on faith – it’s what the empirical data tell us.

The study Hemmingway quotes, conducted by Baylor University, found that levels of superstitious belief are lowest, not among atheists, but among traditional, historically orthodox Christians. She says:

This is not a new finding. In his 1983 book “The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener,” skeptic and science writer Martin Gardner cited the decline of traditional religious belief among the better educated as one of the causes for an increase in pseudoscience, cults and superstition. He referenced a 1980 study published in the magazine Skeptical Inquirer that showed irreligious college students to be by far the most likely to embrace paranormal beliefs, while born-again Christian college students were the least likely.

G.K. Chesterton is often quoted as saying ‘He who does not believe in God will believe in anything.’ He didn’t say it, in fact (see here), but there is certainly a great deal of truth in the statement.

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