LJ Index, July 2007

  1. Number of keystrokes required to bring up a document at the FBI: 13
  2. Cost in $millions of the FBI's scrapped Virtual Case File (VCF) system: 170
  3. Number of IT managers on the VCF system in 40 months: 15
  4. Estimated cost in $millions of VCF's replcement, Sentinel: 425
  5. Expected years until Sentinel is due to be finished: 2
  6. Daily petabytes of Internet Protocol traffic carried by Level 3: 3.7
  7. Percentage of Hollywood films that show tobacco use: 75
  8. Number of actresses in the Linux-hosted Female Celebrity Smoking List : 6409
  9. Percentage of "spam sites" among .info domains: 68
  10. Percentge of "spam sites" among .biz domains: 53%
  11. Percentage of Blogspot.com blogs that are fake "spam" blogs or "splogs": 77
  12. Percentage of hometown.aol.com blogs that are splogs: 91
  13. Percentage of home.aol.com blogs that are splogs: 95
  14. Peak number of splogs created every day, in thousands: 11
  15. Thousands of splogs removed from Technorati in early December 2006: 341
  16. Position of Japanese among the top blogging languages: 1
  17. Position of English among the top blogging languages: 2
  18. Position of Chinese among the top blogging languages: 3
  19. Position of Italian among the top blogging languages: 4
  20. Percentage of blog posts that used tags in February 2007: 35

Sources: 1, CNET; 2-5, Fast Company; 6, Level 3; 7, Time magazine; 8, Smoking From All Sides; 9-13, Infoniac.com; 14-20, Technorati

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