In the latest Newsweek there are some interesting numbers comparing how much things have changed over the last decade.

 

2000

2010
Number of active blogs *

12,000

144 million
Daily Google searches

100 million

2 billion
Books published

282,242

1,052,803
Letters mailed daily (in the U.S.)

208 billion

176 billion
Email sent daily **

12 billion

247 billion
Text messages sent (year’s total)

400,000

4.5 billion
Hard drive storage cost (per gig)

$10

6?
Hours spent online per week

2.7

18
Daily newspapers

1,480

1,302
Reality TV shows

4

320
Clowns ***

1,200

2,700

* This is a scary number for several reasons. First, there’s someone who counts them? (Yes, Blogpulse does.) And second, no wonder most of us get so few comments. Even though there are as many bloggers as their are blogs at a minimum, we’re still spread thin. There were over 52,000 new blogs added to the totals Blogpulse tracks yesterday.

** As far as emails are concerned, my company’s IT department estimates that 97% of the emails that hit our servers are spam.

*** Oh, shit!