December 2007
“35% of all (US 12-17 yr old) teen girls blog, compared with 20% of online boys,...”
– Pew Internet: Teens and Social Media
“To store a digital master record of a movie costs about $12,514 a year, versus...”
– The Afterlife Is Expensive for Digital Movies - New York Times
“Close to 40 percent (38%) of Americans are watching TV shows online, 36 percent...”
– More Americans Creating Content Online | WebProNews
“Will we come to be more forgiving of embarrassing or unflattering information...”
– How to Lose Your Job on Your Own Time - New York Times
“This so-called curse of knowledge…means that once you’ve become an expert...”
– Innovative Minds Don’t Think Alike - New York Times
“For people over 30 (and probably even over 25) email IS the social graph …...”
– Email And Cellphone Contacts Are The Real Social Graph - Publishing 2.0
“Which review indicated the superior product? Was having the perfect five-star...”
– Customer reviews, online shopping | Salon Life
“[iphone] marks a new way of living. For some people constant access to the...”
– Machinist: Tech Blog, Tech News, Technology Articles - Salon
“the annual greenhouse-gas emissions from the production of junk mail (in the US)...”
– junk mail | Salon Life
“You’re not really dating until you put it on Facebook”
– On Facebook, Scholars Link Up With Data - New York Times
“Everything we consider traditional media was invented in the last 2 seconds...”
– June Cohen, TED Media, speaking at Le Web conference
“Best way he’s found to describe RSS is as “automated web...”
– Dave Winer talking at Le Web (paraphrased)
“For a period last summer, I was a Twitter addict… I found Twitter to be...”
– Why I Stopped Using Twitter - Publishing 2.0
“100 years ago in a bank you had to only use the company pen – ensure entered...”
– JP Rangaswami speaking at Le Web 3.0 (paraphrased)
“Chandler said it isn’t just that strategy creates structure; structure can also...”
– JP Rangaswami speaking at Le Web 3.0 (paraphrased)
“To do radical things in a conservative environment is very difficult. To create...”
– Dan Dubno speaking at Le Web 3.0 (paraphrased)
“After playing World of Warcraft, the 12 year old boy knew how to cope when he...”
– thinking with my fingers: Feign death really works
“mobile phones have become an integral part of the mass organizing of protests...”
– Mobile Phones in Mass Organizing: A MobileActive White Paper | MobileActive.org
“This year has seen a boom for online shopping as Britons embrace broadband...”
– 1.09pm: the moment when online shopping found Christmas spirit - Times Online
“The most lucrative moment in British online shopping history began at 1.09pm...”
– 1.09pm: the moment when online shopping found Christmas spirit - Times Online
“the web is now so powerful a force in American politics that it will not be long...”
– Rallying opinion online | Media | The Guardian
“libel law has not kept up with the digital age… “the law regards a...”
– If in doubt, press delete | Advertisement feature | MediaGuardian.co.uk
“according to the Mobile Data Association, 4,825bn text messages were sent during...”
– Watch what you text | Advertisement feature | MediaGuardian.co.uk
“According to figures from the European Interactive Advertising Association...”
– European Journalism Centre - Media News
“Media coverage of cyclone Sidr, which devastated Bangladesh, left hundreds of...”
– Opinion: from Bangladesh to California: the digital gap widens? - Editors Weblog
“it is now not only possible but economically practical for many newspapers to...”
– Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits
“According to the French association of multimedia mobiles (AFMM), the use of bar...”
– Mobile bar codes drive 25% of magazine traffic - Editors Weblog
“Nabaztag is like the Pong of connected objects. Pong was a stupid game but it...”
– Rafi Haladjan from Nabaztag speaking at Le Web 3.0.
“You can’t see the biggest revolutions because they’re invisible.”
– Philippe Starck speaking at Le Web 3.0
“Ethics is a sort of crème brulee – it’s fashionable, trendy word, but it still...”
– Philippe Starck speaking at Le Web 3.0 (paraphrased)
“Blogging allows a million filters to bloom … (by reading blogs) it helps...”
– Chris Alden speaking at Le Web 3.0 (paraphrased)
“Traditionally, we typically ask “what can we add to make something better”? But...”
– Evan Williams speaking at Le Web 3.0 (paraphrased)
“Speakers estimated that digital advertising accounts for only about 5% of all...”
– World’s Largest Digital Market? Soon, It Could Be China - Advertising Age - News
“Marketers in China have been inspired by “American Idol” and its...”
– World’s Largest Digital Market? Soon, It Could Be China - Advertising Age - News
“One of the largest customer-monitoring projects undertaken so far is PRISM...”
– Watching as you shop | Economist.com
“copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to...”
– Cyberlawyer 2.0 | Economist.com
“Odours are known to regulate moods, thoughts and even dating decisions…....”
– Olfaction | Scents and sensitivity | Economist.com
“I HAVE not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” That is...”
– Don’t invent, evolve | Economist.com
“Starting in August 2006, the Stardust@home project enlisted some 24,000...”
– Spreading the load | Economist.com
“there is nothing new about networks of amateurs helping scientists do their...”
– Spreading the load | Economist.com
“For some things, it turns out, computer graphics can be much more effective when...”
– Reality, only better | Economist.com
“some of the most exciting uses of the internet rely on coupling it with the real...”
– Real and virtual worlds | Better together | Economist.com
“in 2006, the web generated 3 million times more information than what humans had...”
– Still Salad Days for China Web 2.0 - ChinaTechNews.com - The Technology Source for the Latest Chinese News, Information, and Commentary on Internet, Computers, Digital, Science, Electronics, Law, Security, Software, Telecom, and Wireless Industries
“82 percent of young Chinese agreed that “Interactivity helps create...”
– Ypulse: Media for the Next Generation
“More than half the Chinese sample (51 percent) said they have adopted a...”
– Ypulse: Media for the Next Generation