......tell jezmondo before they gave him food poisoning?

I'm crook. in bed, not well. cant' move. cant' go to work. I can still work though and I can blog.

so catching up on a few of my favourite blog rolls. Here's some latest stats for the obsessive out there:-

Many of these are courtesy of Brandie.

1. Besides the “usual”, Kazaa, Britney Spears, Dragonball and Kobe Byrant were the most searched for terms in 2003. In 2008, Brittany Spears and Dragonball are still in the top 10.
2. Most-used features of the Internet: Sending email - 91%, Using a search engine to find information - 88%, Researching a product or service before buying it - 78%, Buying a product - 66%
3. Over 176,000 complaints were lodged with the FTC in 2006 relating to Internet fraud; an increase of 16,000 over 2005.
4. 33 percent of youth have been victimized by cyber bullying
5. According to the Miniwatts Marketing Group’s Internet Usage and World Population Statistics (last updated March 31, 2006), worldwide Internet penetration is only 15.7%
6. Internet Porn stats (hysterical): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOFTQpNhsWE
7. For the 2008 election, A record-breaking 46% of Americans have used the internet, email or cell phone text messaging to get news about the campaign, share their views and mobilize others.
8. In 2006 Digital music sites average a global daily peak of over half a million visitors per minute.
9. Dollars spent per visit are growing faster than the number of visitors to online retail stores.
10. In 2007 Spam levels reach 93 percent of all e-mail in March, fueled by botnets.
11. 54% of ebay items receive 0 bids, 23% receive 1 bid and 5% receive 2 bids
12. 3.8% of all ebay auctions are won in the last 5-10 seconds
13. In January 2006 “chuck norris” surpassed “boobs” in most searched for term
14. April 2008 “dodo bird” was the #1 searched for term
15. The 2008 Olympics was the first time athletes were allowed to blog once inside the Village
16. Facebook averages 11.6MM picture uploads per day (June 2007)
17. Over 2MM Facebook users will turn 21 in the next year (2007)
18. 88% of Asian adults online have high speed internet access
19. Between Chicago, Orlando, NYC and Las Vegas, Las Vegas is the most talked about travel destination on any major trip review / travel plan website
20. 71% of YouTube users are employed
21. Facebook is the #1 photo sharing site
22. Charley Kline at UCLA sent the first packets on ARPANet as he tried to connect to Stanford Research Institute on Oct 29, 1969. The system crashed as he reached the G in LOGIN!
23. Yahoo! Answers includes 16,000 questions about Las Vegas
24. Generation Yers spend 12.2 hours a week watching using the internet, but only 10.6 watching TV
25. People spend an average of 20 minutes a day on Facebook
26. 25% of General Motors’ budget will be online in 2009
27. The Huffington Post gets 2x – 3x the traffic of The Star Tribune
28. 89% + of the U.S. Population is online
29. 363 Billion Text Messages Were Sent Last Year\
30. 94% of NikePlus users recommended NikePlus.com to a friend
31. Barack Obama has 92,000+ Twitter followers…he’s following 96,000+
32. 23% of social network users have installed an application/widget
33. There are over 184 million bloggers worldwide
34. The Pope and the Catholic Church Have started texting
35. Social networking sites are officially more popular than porn sites
36. There are 650,000 new videos on youtube a day
37. 39% of people on the web have subscribed to an RSS feed
38. 32% of people on the web trust bloggers’ opinions about products
39. Millenials spend more than 16 hours a week online
40. Topside beef should be be pot roasted for at least 3.5 hours. (is this why i got food poisoning?)