LJ Index

1. Number of minutes per day Britons spend watching TV: 148
2. Number of minutes per day Britons spend using the Net: 164
3. Millions of weblogs as of March 9, 2006: 30.5
4. Millions of RSS feeds, worldwide: 70
5. Number of generations back that all humans have the same ancestors: 120
6. Trillions of dollars in the latest U.S. federal budget: 2.8
7. U.S. federal credit limit, in trillions of dollars: 9
8. Total billions of searches by Americans in January 2006: 5.48
9. Millions of households promised fiber broadband by 2006: 86
10. Promised symmetrical fiber performance in Mbps by 2006: 45
11. Average monthly dollar price promised for home fiber service by 2006: 50
12. Dollar prices for 100Mbps service found in Japan and Korea today: 40
13. Worldwide position of U.S. in broadband deployment in 1996: 1
14. Worldwide position of U.S. in broadband deployment in 2005: 16
15. Estimated billions of dollars lost to customers of failed U.S. fiber deployments: 200
16. Estimated trillions of dollars lost to the U.S. economy by failed fiber deployments: 5
17. Percentage of local authorities using Linux in the U.K: 33
18. Percentage of local authorities using Linux in France: 71
19. Percentage of local authorities using Linux in Holland: 55
20. Percentage of local authorities using Linux in Germany: 68

1-2, Guardian Unlimited, from a Google survey; 3, Technorati; 4, SocialText; 5, Slate and Nature; 6-7, Washington Post; 8, Center for Media Research; 9-16, Cazitech, TeleTruth.org; 17-20, John Dwyer in Industry (U.K.).

http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1726126,00.html

http://www.centerformediaresearch.com/cfmr_brief.cfm?fnl=060317

http://www.sifry.com/alerts/

http://www.themanufacturer.com/britishindustry/content_page.html?article_id=559

http://cazitech.com/