A case of the Cyber Mondays

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Screen Head by Chancellor Monnette

Cyber Monday is a term coined almost 20 years ago by Ellen Davis as the name for the phenomenon of people returning on the post-Thanksgiving Monday to shop with their high-speed Internet connections at work. It’s become the biggest online shopping day of the year & the second biggest shopping day of overall.

I really really hope that for Cyber Monday you think about buying prints, calendars & other items from the amazing photographers featured on Michigan in Pictures! There are all kinds of challenges including AI that make it harder and harder to earn a living with your camera!

Although Chancellor Monnette is no longer online, I still encourage you to check out his work on Flickr!

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Happy Internaut Day, Michigan!

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Lets Dance Audaciously by Ryan Munson

Let’s Dance Audaciously, photo by Ryan Munson

Today (August 23, 2016) is, Internaut Day, the 25th anniversary of the official launch of the the World Wide Web. Some fun facts and some not so fun ones:

  • At least 40 percent of the world has access to the internet
  • Detroit has the worst rate of Internet access of any big American city, with four in 10 of its 689,000 residents lacking broadband (NYT)
  • There are 3.4 billion internauts as of 1 July 2016, half of these are on Facebook.
  • The Michigan Infrastructure Commission is looking for input on citizen hopes for Michigan’s future connectivity.
  • There are at least 1 billion websites on the WWW
  • At least 48.5 percent of internet traffic in 2015 was generated only by bots
  • We search for 56,000 items per second on Google
  • We send 2.5 million emails per second
  • Lolcats is worth $2 million

Ryan took this photo at the University of Michigan Computer Science & Engineering building. View it background big and see more in his slideshow.

An Hour of Code could be good for Michigan!

Posted on by farlane

Screen Head

Screen Head, photo by Chancellor Monnette

If there’s a front page of the internet, it’s probably Google. They manage to pack quite a lot into a spare layout. Today would have been computer science pioneer Grace Hopper’s 107th birthday, and in addition to a tribute doodle, Google is featuring a ridiculously star-packed video about An Hour of Code.

An Hour of Code is a project of Code.org, a non-profit dedicated to expanding participation in computer science education by making it available in more schools, and increasing participation by women and under-represented students of color. The state of Michigan has 13,484 open computing jobs (growing at 4.1x the state job growth average), 1,930 annual computer science graduates and just 78 schools teach computer science. You can get all the details on how you can help encourage schools to require more computer programming from code.org!

Check Chance’s photo our background big and see more in his Portrait slideshow.