498 terror attacks were carried out across Europe in 2006. One, which failed, was by an Islamist organization. But Islamist terror is still a major issue. Islamist groups aim at high civilian fatalities, whereas most of the cases listed here were nonlethal.
A possible starting date for the internet, plus a few interesting facts.
A list of annual viewing figures (in percentages) for British television stations for the twenty five years from 1981 to 2006.
The UK’s oldest award for children’s writing, the Carnegie Medal, has selected 10 former winners to mark the 70th anniversary of the award.
A small set of facts extracted from a report entitled Digital Television: what, why, how? by Pertti Näränen
This is a complete list of the winners of the Eurovision Song Contest, including the names of the songwriters (whom I was moved to include when I realised that Serge Gainsbourg had written a winning entry for Luxembourg).
This is a list of the countries that have won the world cup. The first cup was won in 1930 by Uruguay, who beat Argentina. Brazil have one it most.
According to research in Helsinin Sanomat, it appears that “the number of so-called non-traditional families has not increased as dramatically as one might suspect based on the extent and the volume of public discussion on the subject”.
YLE, the Finnish state broadcasting company, has published some statistics about finnish television viewing habits in the first quarter of this year.
Freeview has overtaken BSkyB in the UK digital television market after strong growth during the first quarter made it the main TV provider in 8.2 million homes.
The number of crimes in which a handgun was used in England and Wales has risen from 299 in 1995 to 1,024 last year. There are more detailed figures here too.
There is a hidden logic to the names that IKEA give their products. Here it is explained by Jon Henley in the Guardian.
Research firm Screen Digest forecasts that mobile TV will put gaming and music in the shade. It predicted that there will be 140 million global subscribers generating revenue of £3.1bn by 2011.
Radio pirates exploit the FM band to illegally broadcast shows, often from make-shift studios. Ofcom doesn’t like them.
The Police Federation of England and Wales says government targets lead to “ludicrous” decisions such as arresting a child for throwing a cucumber slice.
Some facts about Random House, the New York based publishing house. A snapshot from June 2007.
The Ryanair boss, Michael O’Leary, is planning to launch a transatlantic airline offering fares to the US from as little as $12 (£6.10), it emerged today.
Skinkers is the technological break-through of the week, or not. A pertinent question is whether streaming tv on mobile devices is merely supplier-driven, or whether there is an actual demand for it.
Cory Ondrejka (who is Cory Linden in Second Life) posted a series of predictions for 2007 to Terra Nova. I have extracted some of them here.
Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, and the man known to readers of The Register as Captain Cyborg, makes some rash predictions about life in 2020.
Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, and the man known to readers of The Register as Captain Cyborg, makes some more rash predictions about life in 2020.
Tim O’Reilly talks to Wired magazine, just before the Web 2.0 Expo.
Dee Forbes, the senior vice-president and general manager of Turner Broadcasting UK & Ireland, gives the quote of the week, as she describes the rebranding of Turner’s kids channels.
These statistics about Web 2.0 participation have implications for citizen media, too. Are we truly erasing the barriers between citizen and media, or are we just replacing one set of gatekeepers with another?
The percentage of women employed in the field is declining instead of growing. There are other disturbing figures too.