Matthew Inman propone un simpatico collage di illustrazioni sullo Stato del Web - estate 2008

Foreign Policy pubblica ‘’Inside the Digital Dump‘’, un interessante foto reportage di Natalie Behring a proposito dell’e-waste:

‘’Each year, between 20 and 50 million tons of electronic waste is generated globally. Most of it winds up in the developing world. Some of the most popular destinations for dumping computer hardware include China, India, and Nigeria. It can be 10 times cheaper for a “recycler” to ship waste to China than to dispose of it properly at home. With the market for e-waste expected to top $11 billion by 2009, it’s lucrative to dump on the developing world.'’

[via Institute for the Future of the Book]

Google Trends aims to provide insights into broad search patterns.

(…)5.7 million people in the UK use the mobile web, as opposed to 30 million who access the web by PC. This means that the mobile web is already nearly one fifth the size of the PC web. [MobHappy]

NEW YORK, Jan 17 (Reuters) - The number of people reading Internet blogs on the top 10 U.S. newspaper sites more than tripled in December from a year ago and accounted for a larger percentage of overall traffic to those sites, according to data released on Wednesday. (Read more on Reuters.com)