Digital Trends

Digital and mobile advertising revenues are projected to grow to more than 150 billion dollars by 2011, a 12-fold growth from 2002. Wireless subscriptions continue to grow, from 1.1 billion in 2002 to a projected 3.4 billion in 2011, an expansion of more than three-fold. Broadband is expected to grow from 51.38 million households world-wide in 2002 to nearly 540 million households in 2011, a growth of more than ten-fold. The mobile customer base has grown from 945 million in 2001 to 2.6 billion in 2006.

What is Your NBA Nickname?

Mine is "Sterling."
Before that it was "The Pancreas." What's that? The Pancreas misses an easy lay-up. Get an insulin shot, stoopid!

Inflation's Little Parts

New York Times came out with an interactive feature on how inflation affects our pockets. Make that American. Because with Filipino, it's more on instant noodles and cellphone load, the top two expenditure of the average guy. I hope IBON can come out with something as concrete as this, although we again go back to the argument about who surfs the Internet anyway?

Rick A Finally Gets Respect

You've been Rick-rolled if you clicked on my Rick Astley post last year. And of course, he will never gonna give you up.

Create a Crowd

Counting the people in a crowd is a test of a writer's objectivity. If you are for that group, you add a thousand or a hundreds. If you are against what a crowd is demostrating for, you subtract. Either that or you have a bad sense of crowd estimating. To practice, here's a French site about creating a crowd. Learn some of the words and you couls manipulate the number, space in between and even the type of crowd you want. It's fun!!!