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Women Rule the Social Web
…at least according to an infographic by Information is Beautiful . The stats, compiled by Brian Solis from Google Ad Planner data, show that equal numbers of men and women use sites like LinkedIn, DeviantArt and YouTube.
Rumors of the Death of Blogs are Greatly Exaggerated
Source: feministing Each year at Blogworld Expo , Technorati CEO Richard Jalichandra presents The State of the Blogosphere as one of the event’s prestigious keynotes.This is a guest post by Robert J. Moore , the CEO and co-founder of RJMetrics , a on-demand database analytics and business intelligence startup that helps online businesses measure, manage, and monetize better. He was previously a venture capital analyst and currently serves as an advisor to several New York startups.
Twitter Data Analysis: An Investor’s Perspective
World Internet Usage Statistics News and World Population Stats
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A Map Of Social (Network) Dominance
Erick Schonfeld is a technology journalist and the former Editor in Chief of TechCrunch. At TechCrunch, he oversaw the editorial content of the site, helped to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produced TCTV shows, and wrote daily for the blog. He joined TechCrunch as Co-Editor in 2007, and helped take it from a popular blog to a thriving... → Learn More Even on the Web, world dominance must be achieved one country at a time. While Facebook has long been the largest social network in the world, and should soon pass MySpace in the U.S. , it is not the largest social network in every country.
On Twitter, Most People Are Sheep: 80 Percent Of Accounts Have F
Let’s face it, most people are sheep. It is much easier to follow than to lead, and on Twitter it is no different. A full 80 percent of Twitter accounts have fewer than 10 followers, according to an analysis of seven million Twitter accounts provided to TechCrunch by Web security firm Purewire (which operates TweetGrade ). What’s more, 30 percent have zero followers. Does this mean nobody is using Twitter? Or that they are using it more as a one-way information consumption service?One incident at the start of the papal visit left little doubt as to the state of political freedom in Cuba.
Secular Right » The duly elected representatives of the people
ISTANBUL // When a Turkish man rescued his daughter after she was abducted by a gang that forced her into prostitution, he was hailed a hero by many in the country. But people in his own home region of south-eastern Anatolia turned against him, because he refused to do what traditional laws of family honour say must be done in a case like this: kill the girl. "My daughter did not go voluntarily," the man, who did not want to be identified in order to protect his 18-year-old daughter, told Turkish newspapers last month.
Turks turn blind eye to 'honour killings' - The Nation
Honour killing claims 60 lives in Sargodha - GEO.tv
SARGODHA: Sixty people including 23 women were killed in the name of honour during the first eight months of this year. According to police sources on Monday, 37 men were killed in the name of honour and the hearing of these cases is underway in different courts while ‘challans’ of majority of other such cases have not yet been sent to the courts.ISLAMABAD: A total of 428 Pakistanis comprising 260 women and 168 men were brutally killed across Pakistan in the name of honour between January 1 and August 31. The number of honour killings in Pakistan are estimated to be around 2,500 to 3,000 cases every year. However, the report states that a good number of such cases still go unreported or are passed off as suicides and only 25% of these are brought to justice. According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), 260 women and 168 men have already been killed in the first eight months of 2008. Honour killings are treated as murder under Pakistan’s penal code; however, the relevant law states that the family of the victim is allowed to compromise with the killer who is a close relative in most of the cases.