Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
Law of Averages
Fwiw, I’m not “average”, whatever that means.
LoA: The average American pays $997 each year for cable TV, Internet access, and video games.
Me: It’s more like $300/year at my house, since we don’t have cable. It’s no big loss — I can watch Burn Notice the next morning on Hulu.
LoA: Last Sunday’s Super Bowl audience had an average audience of $106 million, eclipsing the M*A*S*H 1983 finale record.
Me: I am not one in a million. Didn’t watch a second of the game. No Who Dat bandwagon for me. I did spend an enjoyable 2.5 hours watching the Caps-Pens ovechkintime thriller.
The Bottom Line, Internet Edition
Royal Pingdom gives us the Internet 2009 in numbers. I always have trouble digesting lists like this — do I really care that there are 234 million Websites? And can I be sure that number’s correct? — but there’s one thing that just jumps right out at me: the explosion of “non-traditional” Web content, to wit:
- 27.3 million – Number of tweets on Twitter per day (November, 2009)
- 2.5 billion – Photos uploaded each month to Facebook
- 12.2 billion – Videos viewed per month on YouTube in the US (November 2009)
