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. When it comes to sites like Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, MySpace and Bebo, however, women outnumber men. In fact, there's only one major holdout for men on the social web: social news site Digg, where 64% of users are male. That the Digg population is largely male should come as no surprise, but what about the other stats? Are women just more social in general, or is there some other explanation? Let us know in the comments. [Image Credit: lisibo] Rumors of the Death of Blogs are Greatly Exaggerated. InShare0 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. For those who are unfamiliar with Technorati, it serves as a directory and search engine for the blogosphere as well as a benchmark for the ranking of blogs worldwide.
While there has been much discussion about the relevance and even demise of blogs as the statusphere and micro updates gained traction in addition to earning prominence in the mainstream spotlight, the reality is that blogs are a vital ingredient to the media ecosystem. Released as a five-part series, Technorati provided a looking glass into the blogosphere and revealed the true shape and promise of this important medium. Demographics Analyzing the demographics of bloggers, we learn that they’re not necessarily similar to that of the Social Web.
Within the U.S., the states with the highest concentrations of bloggers include: Experience Citizen Journalism. Twitter Data Analysis: An Investor’s Perspective. 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. Robert blogs at The Metric System and can be followed on Twitter at @RJMetrics. A few weeks ago, my former employer led a $100 million investment into Twitter and I must admit that I was quite jealous of my former colleagues. Rather than wonder about what I missed, I decided to figure out what I could from the outside looking in. Twitter's user growth is no longer accelerating. Read on for some detailed charts a deeper dive into the data.
How We Did It In most cases, this kind of outside-looking-in exercise wouldn't be possible. In the end, our sample size consisted of about 85,000 users and just over 3 Million tweets. Number of Twitter Users Hockey, anyone? Number of Tweets. World Internet Usage Statistics News and World Population Stats. I blame love desegregation. A Map Of Social (Network) Dominance. 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. The map above created by Vincenzo Cosenza resembles more a game of Risk, with Facebook sweeping across the globe from the West. Using Alexa and Google Trend data, Cosenza color-coded the map based on which social network is the most popular in each country. All of the light green countries belong to Facebook. But there are still pockets of resistance in Russia (where V Kontakte rules), China (QQ), Brazil and India (Orkut), Central America, Peru, Mongolia, and Thailand (hi5), South Korea (Cyworld), Japan (Mixi), the Middle East (Maktoob), and the Philippines (Friendster).
Apparently, Alexa already thinks that Facebook is larger than MySpace in the United States. Below is an interactive version of the map. 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? The fact that an estimated 32 million people around the world visited Twitter.com alone in April certainly indicates that there is something going on there. It just may be that Twitter really isn’t as much about two-way micro-conversations as it is about one-way micro-broadcasting.
Here is how Purewire breaks down activity on Twitter by number of followers, followings, and Tweets: Followers Accounts with 0 followers: 29.4% Accounts with 1 to 9 followers: 50.9% Accounts with 10 or more followers: 19.7% ‘6,780 Pakistani children victimised in 2008’ 2008 saw 179 honour killings. Secular Right » The duly elected representatives of the people. Ross Douthat nails it in his most recent column, Diversity and Dishonesty: It would be a far, far better thing if Harvard and Brandeis and Mozilla would simply say, explicitly, that they are as ideologically progressive as Notre Dame is Catholic or B. Y.U. is Mormon or Chick-fil-A is evangelical, and that they intend to run their institution according to those lights. As I have stated before, to a great extent neutrality in matters of ideology is a transparent fiction, at least at its root.
Consider this recollection by a transgender individual, Fear and Loathing in Public Bathrooms, or How I Learned to Hold My Pee: Every time I bring up or write about the hassles trans and genderqueer people receive in public washrooms or change rooms, the first thing out of many women’s mouths is that they have a right to feel safe in a public washroom, and that, no offense, but if they saw someone who “looks like me” in there, well, they would feel afraid, too. Progressivism Organic: of course! Turks turn blind eye to 'honour killings' - The Nation.
Honour killing claims 60 lives in Sargodha. DNA - World - 428 killed in the name of honour - Daily News &. 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. 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. Women who flirt 'blamed' for rape.