“35% of all (US 12-17 yr old) teen girls blog, compared with 20% of online boys, and 54% of wired girls post photos online compared with 40% of online boys. Boys, however, do dominate one area - posting of video content online. Online teen boys are nearly twice as likely as online girls (19% vs. 10%) to have posted a video online somewhere where someone else could see it.”
—Pew Internet: Teens and Social Media
December 2007
“To store a digital master record of a movie costs about $12,514 a year, versus the $1,059 it costs to keep a conventional film master. Much worse, to keep the enormous swarm of data produced when a picture is “born digital” — that is, produced using all-electronic processes, rather than relying wholly or partially on film — pushes the cost of preservation to $208,569 a year, vastly higher than the $486 it costs to toss the equivalent camera negatives, audio recordings, on-set photographs and annotated scripts of an all-film production into the cold-storage vault”
—The Afterlife Is Expensive for Digital Movies - New York Times
“Close to 40 percent (38%) of Americans are watching TV shows online, 36 percent use their cell phones for entertainment and 45 percent are creating Web sites, music, videos and blogs, according to a survey from Deloitte & Touche”
—More Americans Creating Content Online | WebProNews
“Will we come to be more forgiving of embarrassing or unflattering information trails as more of us have our own experiences with personal data leftovers gone bad?”
—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 in a particular subject, it’s hard to imagine not knowing what you do. … When it’s time to accomplish a task those in the know get it done the way it has always been done, stifling innovation as they barrel along the well-worn path.”
—Innovative Minds Don’t Think Alike - New York Times
“For people over 30 (and probably even over 25) email IS the social graph … There are very few people who matter to me with whom I do not regularly communicate by email. Nearly every causal business relationship becomes more substantive through email communication. The only communication platform everyone in my family shares is email.”
—Email And Cellphone Contacts Are The Real Social Graph - Publishing 2.0
“Which review indicated the superior product? Was having the perfect five-star rating the true measure of customer satisfaction? Or was it more impressive to have a stellar rating that had persevered despite twice as many opportunities for getting bashed? Mathematically speaking, we could create a function that solved this problem. Forgive me, College Board, but I’m not going to do this. Instead, I scanned for outliers — scores outside the general distribution — like all 5s and a 1, anything else oddly scented. I didn’t find anything too fishy, but these days, consumer skepticism has become the norm when it comes to online reviews.”
—Customer reviews, online shopping | Salon Life
“[iphone] marks a new way of living. For some people constant access to the Internet is a pleasant dream, while for others it’s a dreaded nightmare. This year, for all of us, it became a reality, the unavoidable future.”
—Machinist: Tech Blog, Tech News, Technology Articles - Salon
“the annual greenhouse-gas emissions from the production of junk mail (in the US) are equal to those of 3.5 million cars (and) each year (it) consumes more than 96.7 billion gallons of water and more than 100 million trees…. according to the Environmental Protection Agency, only about a third of all junk mail is recycled.”
—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 before midnight (if you condense all history into a single day)”
—June Cohen, TED Media, speaking at Le Web conference
“Best way he’s found to describe RSS is as “automated web surfing”… A way to dip in and out of rivers of content, rivers of news”
—Dave Winer talking at Le Web (paraphrased)
“For a period last summer, I was a Twitter addict… I found Twitter to be mesmerizing, which partly reflects the brilliance of the design and partly that I was following really interesting, insight, enjoyable people… But here’s the problem… TOO MUCH of Twitter is a massive waste of time. … the noise to signal ratio is WAY too high.”
—Why I Stopped Using Twitter - Publishing 2.0
“100 years ago in a bank you had to only use the company pen – ensure entered into ledgers properly. Now imagine doing that today. But we are – to today’s generation, the laptop is their version of the pen, and we don’t let them use their personal machines at work.”
—JP Rangaswami speaking at Le Web 3.0 (paraphrased)
“Chandler said it isn’t just that strategy creates structure; structure can also create strategy. Too many organizations are still structured in ways that encourage people not to share.”
—JP Rangaswami speaking at Le Web 3.0 (paraphrased)
“To do radical things in a conservative environment is very difficult. To create radical change in the newsroom, we waited for awful things to happen. I found really cool technologies and would wait for a war or natural disaster in order to introduce them to CBS’s coverage.”
—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 was attacked by a moose in the forest. In the article he describes how he first yelled at the moose, distracting it so his sister got away, then when he got attacked and the animal stood over him he feigned death. “Just like you learn at level 30 in World of Warcraft.”
—thinking with my fingers: Feign death really works
“mobile phones have become an integral part of the mass organizing of protests and demonstration. In the Philippines, South Korea, Nepal, Bolivia, China, the Ukraine, the United States, and most recently Burma and Pakistan, cell phone have connected activists and ordinary people, giving civic voice to individuals and creating communication channels for organizing, mobilizing, and reporting.”
—Mobile Phones in Mass Organizing: A MobileActive White Paper | MobileActive.org
“This year has seen a boom for online shopping as Britons embrace broadband internet connections and grow accustomed to using their credit cards online. The total online spend for 2007 is predicted to be £53.3 billion, 76 per cent higher than the £30.2 billion recorded for 2006, and the £42 billion experts had predicted”
—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 yesterday when more than £750,000 was spent in a single minute, according to an internet monitoring company”
—1.09pm: the moment when online shopping found Christmas spirit - Times Online
