How Big is the Internet?

Newest stats compiled by Pingdom.

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152 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse). 25 billion – Number of sent tweets on Twitter in 2010 100 million – New accounts added on Twitter in 2010 175 million – People on Twitter as of September 2010 7.7 million – People following @ladygaga (Lady Gaga, Twitter’s most followed user). 600 million – People on Facebook at the end of 2010. 250 million – New people on Facebook in 2010. 30 billion – Pieces of content (links, notes, photos, etc.) shared on Facebook per month. 70% – Share of Facebook’s user base located outside the United States. 20 million – The number of Facebook apps installed each day. Read more at royal.pingdom.com

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Visualization of an Internet Shutdown in Egypt. What does it mean?

While there is no doubt that a conflict is happening in #Egypt, I haven't been able to form a sensible opinion on the issues.

What I know

1) A lot of people don't like the current government

2) Violence is happening

3) The government reacted by shutting down communications

Here's my big question. Is the intent to hide from the world, or cut off communication between the rebels?

The effectiveness of the action is questionable either way.

I so much want to be saying "bad or dumb move to shut down communications" and comment in favor of any group fighting for change.

But would it be irresponsible for me to do so?

Supposing there is some change. I assume it would be positive. But what do I know? Would the new government be better?

I don't have a clue.

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WSJ shares complete record of one man's life

How much do you want to share?

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But most of my life isn’t spent on the move. It’s spent online, which makes passive data collection ever easier. I don’t use any applications for logging computer use, but several services I rely on heavily return data about my usage. (That should be a standard feature, shouldn’t it?) If you’ve opted into Google Web History, it will tell you when you search:

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I caught @joelcomm doing something very bad

We know that old media's motive is to keep our eyeball glued to the ads.

New media may get ad revenue (like @JoelComm taught us in "The Adsense Code" but I hold that it's just one of many motives from sharing news online.

What's your ulterior motive?

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I NEVER watch television news. I NEVER buy a newspaper.

But I happened to be in front of a television the other day while waiting on my car at an oil change shop.

The local news was on, so I watched out of the corner of my eye while checking my email on my iPhone.

What I heard solidified my decision to tune out television news. Read more at joelcomm.com

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Cameron Diaz Does Not Hate Your Interwebz

When shopping for celebrity gossip, it's always a good idea to look out for viruses and bad players. That's a good idea any time.

From what I've seen, as long as you aren't looking for hoards of photos or lurid details, you are pretty safe. After all, most anything you need is on IMDB or social media sites.

But it does make for great headlines and fun discussions like my wife saying "Why is SHE on your computer screen"

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Computer security firm McAfee named the Something About Mary star the “most dangerous” internet celebrity. Searching “Cameron Diaz” on the internet puts you at a one in 10 risk of landing on a website ripe with malicious software. Read more at holykaw.alltop.com

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When people ask me for insider knowledge about Vegas, I say follow @24k and @vegasbill

I live in the suburbs.

In Vegas, that's not too far away from the action.. but most days, I sit and look at the skyline from the side of my pool or catch the lights from my bedroom or home office.

If you ask me about having a good time when visiting, or how to have the most fun as a local, I'll introduce you to the Twitter Twins. Chris and Bill.

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Old Media Joke of the Day

LA Times writing about Social Media as a "complement to traditional media campaigns"

Does anyone still pay attention to what the paper say?

:)

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Politicians nationwide who increasingly turn to Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to complement their traditional media campaigns also should pay attention

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