I’ve seen this posted elsewhere (Hat tip to Rax and Dave) but it’s too good not to share on the off-chance you haven’t seen it.
It’s a lovely Flash app monitoring stats on social media compiled original in September by Gary Hayes, and is very good, entertaining, enlightening, and potentially scary if you’re nervous about what’s happening in digital. Make sure you also check the Mobile and Gaming tabs…
And it ties in brilliantly with a recent quote from Leo LaPorte’s Net@Night Show (I always listed to This Week in Tech, but missed this episode of Net@Night, so rather glad Euan Semple picked up on it)
‘he (Leo) quoted the fact that YouTube has ten hours of video uploaded every minute of every day. He then quoted Theodore Strurgeon who claimed that “80% of everything is crap”. As Leo said, even if it is worse than that and 99% of everything is crap then this leaves one per cent of excellence. This means that every minute there are six minutes of excellent video being made available – more than we would ever be able to watch!
Just apply the same logic to the stats Gary is providing, and then use them to slap anyone that claims Blogs/Youtube/Twitter/Facebook/The Internet (insert your own popular media target/linkbait subject) etc is just a load of rubbish.
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