The first white house blog
I generally don’t get into politics. Too controversial and I’m just not that into politics, especially on a national scale.
However, doing what I do, I can’t help but notice what our new President Obama has done with social media and the web already, and I can’t wait to see if it continues.
Well, so far so good. At 12:01 est on the day of the Inauguration the first White House blog debuted. If people were doubting the legitimacy of blogs…well, I think that’s a pretty good indicator for you.
Now on to some fun stuff.
Here’s a link to some Inauguration pictures on the Big Picture. Amazing photo site.
Here’s a link to the Inaugural address on YouTube.
Top 10 stats from the social media numbers game
I’m constantly asked for different statistics or metrics to justify what people want to do or are doing. Sometimes it drives me a little crazy that some people still don’t understand what’s going on with the web. There are still groups that seem to think the web is a fad and not an integral business and communications channel.
For those that are somehow still in that group, here’s a great post from futurebuzz.com. Here’s ten of the more interesting statistics here but do visit the link for the full list. Very impressive.
- 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) – approximate number of unique URLs in
- 2,000,000,000 (two billion) – very rough number of Google searches daily
- 2,695,205 – the number of articles in English on Wikipedia
- 684,000,000 – the number of visitors to Wikipedia in the last year
- 70,000,000 – number of total videos on YouTube (March 2008)
- 412.3 years – length in time it would take to view all content on YouTube (March 2008)
- 133,000,000 – number of blogs indexed by Technorati since 2002
- 346,000,000 – number of people globally who read blogs (comScore March 2008)
- more than 1,111,991,000 tweets to date on Twitter
- 150,000,000 – number of active users on Facebook
This stuff isn’t going away people.
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