Report: YouTube Dominates Video More than Google Dominates Search

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

ReadWriteWeb/Hitwise sez: Report: YouTube Dominates Video More than Google Dominates Search Traffic analysts Hitwise released new numbers today indicating that while online video sites as a category have seen a 7% drop in traffic year over year since March 2007 – YouTube has seen a remarkable 32% growth in visits during that period. YouTube’s market [...]

Chinese love their having Internets censored: Pew

Monday, March 31st, 2008

According to findings from the fourth and most recent of a series of surveys about internet use in China from 2000 to 2007, over 80% of respondents say they think the internet should be managed or controlled, and in 2007, almost 85% say they think the government should be responsible for doing it. –Pew, Most [...]

An academic look at lulz

Monday, January 14th, 2008

It is [memetic contagion] that is illustrated fully by 4chan and internet culture at large. There is no basis for the existence of it other than simply to exist at the whim of the thousands of users who view them. It is also this knowledge that excites and proliferates the culture. Traditionally, these cultural objects [...]