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Web’s Short Attention Span (plus more)
If you’re writing for the web, get to the point! The average home user spends only 52 seconds on a web page.
Other useful facts from Nielsen/NetRatings’ June 2006 figures:
- The average home user has 36 web-browsing sessions per month, visiting a total of 63 unique domains.
- There are 10,546,747 active “digital media” consumers in Australia (does that mean “Internet users?), out of an estimated 13,745,868 potential users.
A Tale of Two Thrillers
Despite working an exhausting 65 hours last week, somehow I found time to knock off two books, both thrillers. One thrilled, one disappointed.
Danger List demonstrates Drug Hypocrisy
Hypocritical drug laws, as demonstrated by a UK parliamentary committee. This drug danger league table courtesy of New Scientist magazine shows the relative danger of various drugs, legal and illegal, based on scientific evidence covering dependency and physical and social harm based on a survey of people’s opinions of their relative harm.
Costello Snark 2003
This week’s spat between John Howard and Peter Costello over the prime ministership is all over the media, so no need for me to comment. But, thanks to Crikey I was reminded of one of Costello’s wond’rous snarky interviews — from 2003, again on the subject of the Liberal party leadership…
Cats that look like Hitler
This week’s website which simply had to exist: Cats that look like Hitler. (Courtesy of Tim Bray.)