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NSF Launches Science360 Radio for Web, iPhone and Android The National Science Foundation (NSF) has launched Science360 Radio, the first Internet radio stream dedicated to programming about Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). Science360 Radio offers 24/7 programming, with more than 100 radio shows and podcasts produced in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom […]
From a Pando Networks Announcement: A study released by Pando Networks revealed the speed and reliability of Internet connections around the globe with some surprising findings. Based on 27 million downloads by 20 million computers in 224 countries from January through June 2011 , the study provides a comprehensive look at worldwide data accessibility, singling […]
Title: How People Learn About Their Local Community ||| (PDF Version) by: Tom Rosenstiel, Amy Mitchell, Kristen Purcell, Lee Rainie Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project Direct to Interactive Chart: What Sources Do People Rely on MOST For Information About… From the Report Overview: Contrary to much of the conventional understanding of how people […]
As you likely know by now, Google’s Chairman (and former CEO) Eric Schmidt testified in front of the U.S. Senate Antitrust, Competition and Consumer Rights Subcommittee on Wednesday. You can watch the archived video (as well as read a mechanically generated text transcript) via the award winning C-SPAN Video Library. In fact, you can search […]
From ITU’s (International Telecommunication Union) StatShot: Title: Mobile penetration over 100% in 97 economies; global Internet user penetration reaches 30% Here’s Some of What You’ll Find: At the end of 2010 – while more than 2.6 billion people worldwide still lacked access to toilets or other forms of improved sanitation– there were almost 4 billion […]
From an Experian Hitwise Blog Post by James Murray: In August 2011 there were 3.4 billion hours spent online by the UK Internet population, but if we distilled all usage into a single hour, this is how it would look. [Clip] By far the biggest proportion of time spent online is on social media sites. […]
Direct to Infographic From a Summary on Silicon Alley Insider: Facebook hosts 140 billion photos, and will add 70 billion this year, according to the blog of photo-sharing site 1000memories. Putting this in context, 1000memories made the following visualization which shows how big Facebook’s library of photos are in comparison to other photo sharing sites, […]
The interactive map is titled, “Censorship on the March” and shows Internet filtering in four areas: 1. Political 2. Social 3. Conflict 4. Internet Tools Data sources are OpenNet Initiative and the United Nations.
Direct to Redesigned CNI: Coalition for Networked Information Web Site Congrats to Cliff, Joan, Diane, and the rest of the CNI team on the launch of their redesigned site. It really looks great! New features too! From the Web Site: CNI’s new site will include a Browse by Topic section in which we’ve organized some […]
Kudos to the the R&D Team at comScore. Superb work! You can take a look at what they call the Internet Seisnometer along with other materials here.