"According to our February 2012 survey, 80% of American adults use the internet. Click here to see a breakdown of internet users by demographics."

"Here's a round up of digital marketing stats we've seen this week."

"Memes and Pop culture virality did not start with the internet. Long before that, underground sensations spread amongst fanboys who poured mass amounts of effort into staying up on mailing lists and trading groups to get their fix of audio and video clips."

"While it’s difficult domain to penetrate — hard numbers are few and far between — we know for a fact that porn sites are some of the most trafficked parts of the internet. According to Google’s DoubleClick Ad Planner, which tracks users across the web with a cookie, dozens of adult destinations populate the top 500 websites. Xvideos, the largest porn site on the web with 4.4 billion page views per month, is three times the size of CNN or ESPN, and twice the size of Reddit."

"The government will be able to monitor the calls, emails, texts and website visits of everyone in the UK under new legislation set to be announced soon."

"We've already seen some signs of this on amazon.com (with prices on offer to different customers varying for the same product, presumably on the basis of the customer's willingness to pay more for goods in prior transactions)."

"FabFi is an ambitious project which is creating Internet networks for eastern Afghanistan whose main components can be built out of trash. It's low-tech, it's simple--and it works."

"... last year the number of new sites added to the Web slowed down to 29.9 million, from 48.7 million in 2007."

Nice infographic.

"Explore this interactive graphic to find out which are the biggest sites on the internet, as measured by the Nielsen company."

"This Google resource brings together the latest industry facts and insights. These have been collected from a number of third party sources covering a range of topics from macroscopic economic and media trends to how consumer behaviour and technology are changing over time."

"Like a lot of science fiction writers, I love grand futuristic schemes. A grand scheme of this kind answers the simple question 'What’s the future all about?'"

"Newmark's claim of almost total disinterest in wealth dovetails with the way craigslist does business. Besides offering nearly all of its features for free, it scorns advertising, refuses investment, ignores design, and does not innovate."

"When you add it all up, the average American spends roughly nine hours a day glued to some kind of screen..."

"... is the leading provider of objective, critical intelligence on the worldwide state of the Internet. Intensive data collection on every continent with innovative, proprietary software ensures that we command the most comprehensive view of Internet routes and deliver the most viable information."

Satellite broadband.

"About twenty years ago people noticed computers and TV were on a collision course and started to speculate about what they'd produce when they converged."

"In any case, only between 15 and 22 percent of the world’s population is on the Internet. We have a long way to go."

Once upon a time, Microsoft used to fill its data centers one server at a time. Now it's preparing to load up servers by the shipping container.

Time Berners-Lee's original proposal for the web was entitled:'Information Management: A Proposal".

Collecting site usage data via Firefox users?

Identifying and critiquing aging, abandoned, and derelict web sites since 1996. Includes a Web 1.0 screenshot library, essays, and "The Museum of Interactive Failure."

"What I didn't know until recently, is that a stunted version of hypertext had been demonstrated as early as 1968. This was no run-of-the-mill boring-vision-of-the-future demo."

How it works...

In 2007, nearly 15 million households in Great Britain (61 per cent) had Internet access.

Although the Internet contains well over 100 million Web sites, two electrical engineers think they know what the traffic patterns of the entire Web look like.

Gossip, rumour and privacy on the internet.

Blog... follow-up with a read of a few entries.

Neal Stephenson on laying cables...

Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook.

Seeing the future.

U.S. focused.

Mapping the great network that is the internet was never going to be an easy task.

Good, but slightly outdated, overview of debate about the state of online / offline media.

Website relationship mapping.

What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content.

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Internet television.