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Natalie: Hmm... to make a long story short: http://blog.swivel.com/weblog/2008/06/please-let-me-i.html 9 months ago

Natalie: It will be interesting to see if robberies increased overall this year. 11 months ago

Natalie: Will do. This morning I heard on the news that someone had robbed all the patrons of a downtown bar last night. 11 months ago

Natalie: Welcome to Swivel! about 1 year ago

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Movie Ratings vs. ..

              Natalie:
              I agree. It would be interesting to see the age of the average moviegoer these days. From personal experience, it always seems like there are a lot of teenagers hanging out in the movie theaters around where I live on the weekends.

It may also be the ratings systems. Do you think there is more violence, language, nudity, drugs in PG-13 movies than 5-10 years ago? 

I saw a documentary on the MPAA called "This Film is Not Yet Rated." I vaguely remember them talking about how directors are sometimes forced to cut sex scenes or violence to make the movie PG-13 so it can appeal to a wider audience and hopefully bring in more revenue.
              
                (7 months ago)
              
              drunkenlamppost:
              I think that's true. At least it's my impression, and I'm sure I've read something along these lines. But sounds like there needs to be a proper statistical study made...
              
                (7 months ago)
              
              Tweed:
              Very cool  Nice job!
              
                (6 months ago)

Google Zeitgeist:
Fastest Rising Sea..

              Natalie:
              Hi smithcarli,

Google trends uses a search volume index to measure the popularity of a search term. From their website: 

"The numbers you see on the y-axis of the Search Volume Index (which you can see after you've signed in to your Google Account) aren't absolute search traffic numbers. Instead, Trends scales the first term you've entered so that its average search traffic in the chosen time period is 1.0; subsequent terms are then scaled relative to the first term. Note that all numbers are relative to total traffic."

For more info: http://www.google.com/intl/en/trends/about.html

                (5 months ago)
              
              drunkenlamppost:
              The interesting questions are 'why?'. obama and palin are obvious, youtube perhaps expected, but wonder why facebook is continuing to grow so fast, and why ATT?
              
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              Natalie:
              That is a good question. A search for "att" on Google Trends doesn't shed much light either. There weren't any major headlines about the company this year. Maybe because they were the phone company that released the iphone?
              
                (5 months ago)

vinyl, cassettes,
cds, and Digital ..

drunkenlamppost: Fascinating chart. First time I've seen digital sales compared against the other historic technological changes in music distribution, and fascinating to see the comparison suggesting they may go relatively higher - albeit, one assumes the income to the industry and music producers is perhaps less. It would be good to see similar charts of the raw numbers e.g. volumes of sales AND the $ value of sales, and the latter taking into account inflation. (3 months ago)

aeroid: The absolute chart shows that DVD sales dipped way before replacement by digital sales. We all know that digital music was available far earlier then it was monetized. But it also shows that the industry had kicked off the next technology cycle far earlier for cassette and DVD. (3 months ago)