Answer: only eight percent of American Internet users.
Related: “half of Twitter users never listen to a word anyone else says.”
Via newsweek:
Meet Honeysuckle, your 2011 Color of the Year.
Dear Pantone forecasting group, I just thought you should know the blooms on my honeysuckle plant are white.
Survey Shows Overall Giving During 2010 Holiday Season to Exceed $48 Billion as 74 Percent of US Adults Plan to Give | Convio →
Online giving alone is estimated to account for more than $6 billion, an increase of more than 30 percent from the same period in 2009.
Encouraging news for the non-profit sector.
Via utnereader:
With surreal robotic voices, two digi-panda bears explain why it is so hard for non-profit arts organizations to get funding. The short animation is frustrating, darkly funny, and informative. Read some commentary from Arts Journal here.
I tried watching this video last week, but didn’t get very far into it because I found the “voices” so annoying-sounding. Other videos in this series are difficult to watch/listen to for the same reason. Perhaps the creator’s future work will be a bit easier on the ear.
How many babies were conceived during the Great Tumblr Blackout of 2010?
Via washingtonpoststyle:
We’re guessing zero. It’s a geekscape out here, after all.