There’s over a billion people online. So what would a world map look like if it was distorted to show the internet population?

From Worldmapper

Ran across this very interesting video put together by students at Kansas State University. They talk about college students and what they deal with using statistics, etc. From what I can tell, this only applies to students in the US, not necessarily global. But a great watch.

YouTube - A Vision of Students […]

Internet Audience up 10 Percent Worldwide
The Internet reaches 747 million people worldwide, 1.3 million of whom reside in the top 15 countries ranked by Internet population. The data are according to numbers released by comScore Networks’s World Metrix service.
The greatest growth over the past year comes from India (33 percent); the Russian Federation (21 percent); […]

China bans opening new Internet cafes - CNN.com
…14 government departments, including the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Information Industry, had issued a notice saying that “in 2007, local governments must not sanction the opening of new Internet bars.”
It said there are about 113,000 Internet cafes in China…The Chinese government promotes Internet use for […]

“They” say that Africa’s Internet gap is getting wider:
Less than 1 percent of Africans have access to broadband services due to a lack of international connectivity and unwieldy monopolies, compared with 22 percent of Americans and 30 percent of western Europeans, Hurst said.
After spending a week in Kenya helping our African staff get online and […]

From Pew via DJ:

Youths No Longer Predominant at MySpace
It’s not all youths on MySpace. Half of the site’s users are 35 or older, according to comScore Media Metrix’s analysis of its U.S. Internet traffic measurements. Only 30 percent are under 25 despite a common belief that the site is mostly populated with kids and young adults.
Just a year […]

Nice page to reference for US Internet Demographic Trends. It includes charts and excel spreadsheets of some of the Pew Internet Project’s latest trend findings such as:

Who’s Online
Online Activities - Total
Online Activities - Daily
Internet Adoption
Usage Over Time
Usage Over Time Tip Sheet

For example, according to the latest data from Pew, almost 1 in 4 adults […]

Top 15 Online Populations and Web Properties Worldwide, June 2006
Close to 713 million people around the world age 15 and over used the Web in June…Of the 713 million online users, 21 percent originated from the U.S.; 11 percent from China; and 7 percent from Japan.

Keith Seabourn, CTO for Campus Crusade, has recently been in Europe at the EASC conference. On his blog, he has a very encouraging story about Antonio who began seeking answers online. He was paired up with a mentor of which they had conversations through email, phone, and face-to-face. Not only is Antonio […]