I ran across this data in Newsweek magazine (7/26/10 issue) while in a wating room, and thought others might be interested.
-=Grant=-
YEAR
2000
YEAR
2010
Active Bloggs
12,000
Active Blogs
141,000,000
Daily Google Searches
100 Million
Daily Google Searches
2 Billion
Books Published
282,242
Books Published
1,052,803
Letters mailed daily
207.88 Billion
Letters mailed daily
175.67 Billion
Daily e-mails
12 Billion
Daily e-mails
247 Billion
Time spent on-line
2.7 hours/week
Time spent on-line
18 hours/week
Daily Newspapers
1,488
Daily Newspapers
1,302
CD Sales Revenue
$943 Million
CD Sales Revenue
$427.9 Million
iTunes Downloads
0
iTunes Downloads
10 Billion
Hard Drive Storage Cost
$10 per Gigabyte
Hard Drive Storage Cost
$0.06 per Gigabyte

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