Tag Archives: Internet

Monday, Yahoo! announced that it has over 20 billion indexed web pages and web files in its search engine. In a huge expansion effort, Yahoo! almost doubles its capacity over that of Google’s roughly 11 billion web elements. “Of the 20 billion elements in Yahoo’s database, 19 billion are documents, …

Last night, a small group of the editors of Blogcritics huddled around their respective monitors waiting for SiteMeter to tell them that the ten-millionth visitor to the site had arrived. Fleeting though it was, it was a pretty nifty moment in time. Blogcritics publisher Eric Olsen commemorated the occasion here. …

About a week before our third anniversary (August 12), Blogcritics.org — our little “sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, technology, and politics” — has hit the 10 million unique visitors mark. This is a nice big fat round number that speaks volumes toward the talents …

If you read, or post, a great blog item about anything from Neanderthals to Boris Yeltsin, tell me about it ...

Dear Prince, NPGMusicClub Ever since I was introduced to your music, I’ve been a keen fan of your work. It was back in the day when I worked at what used to be one of the great Independent record companies, Rough Trade. I was talking about music with one Bob …

There are countless peer directories that exist in order for people to meet new people and connect with their own friends. Friendster was the first real popular one. TheFaceBook supplanted it for a while as it publicized itself to the college crowd. Now MySpace has supplanted them all to create …

Where are all the female bloggers? Here, in my weekly top ten posts.

A survey of more than 600 computer-savvy music fans by the British music research firm The Leading Question shows that those who regularly download or share copyrighted music without permission also spend an average of £5.52 a month on legal downloads, while those who don’t illegally fileshare spent just £1.27 …

...to fathom the contempt George Orwell would have held for current standards of reportage.

There are various levels of Pottermania: those who are interested but aren’t going to kill themselves to get Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in the first few days; those who will make a point of getting their copy on Saturday, one of an expected 10.8 million copies to be …