My pick of the week's top 5 items of interest:
- Technorati has released their State of the Blogosphere 2008 report. Some interesting findings:
- 1.5 million blog posts are created each week.
- 57% of US bloggers are male, 58% are at least 35 years old, 26% are single, and 74% have a college degree.
- The average US blogger has been blogging for 35 months (I've been blogging for 33 months).
- The average blog has 18,000 unique visitors a month.
- 83% of female and 76% of male bloggers (globally) have a personal blog.
- A recent study finds college students ignoring potential malware popup dialog boxes. Why am I not surprised.
- Dan Waters, a Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist, writes an informative article for getting a job in the game industry. It's a little like going pro after college... it's very difficult to do, and only a few make it.
- Google is sponsoring Project 10^100. If you have an idea that you think could help a large number of people, submit it before Oct. 20. Google will be giving $10 million to the projects they think are the most deserving.
- Amazon is now selling a book entitled Lazy Preservation: Reconstructing Websites from the Web Infrastructure. The book has an uncanny resemblance to my dissertation.
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