Category: Society

  • 11 percent of Britons are bloggers

    Does anyone know of any recent stats on blog usage in Europe? I asked on Wednesday following the release of such stats for the US by the Pew Internet project. Yesterday, The Guardian provided some answers with news of Britons’…

  • Latest blog trends from Pew Internet

    It’s stats time again regarding blogging. Reuters is reporting new findings released today by the Pew Internet and American Life Project on Americans’ activities with blogs that indicate a number of interesting things. For starters, Reuters says, many people see…

  • How to get depressed with Technorati

    I was looking for something on Technorati just now and glanced at the top searches and hot tags lists on the home page. Technorati certainly does reflect the topical issues people want to find commentary and opinion about from the…

  • Tech-challenged Europeans who don’t read blogs

    Reuters reports on a survey that says about 37% of people living in the 25 European Union countries have no computer skills, with Scandinavians being the most computer-literate and Greeks the least. The survey results – “How skilled are Europeans…

  • European expansion for MySpace

    MySpace.com, the online social network, is often a topic I include in presentations and workshops about social media and social computing. The context is on the growth of cybercommunities and, in the case of MySpace.com, its rapid and growing appeal…