Monday, 7 March 2011
Global alcohol consumption
The world drank the equivalent of 6.1 litres of pure alcohol per person in 2005, according to a report from the World Health Organisation published on February 11th. The biggest boozers are found in Europe and in the former Soviet states. Moldovans are the most bibulous, getting through 18.2 litres each, nearly 2 litres more than the Czechs in second place. Over 10 litres of a Moldovan's annual intake is reckoned to be 'unrecorded' home-brewed liquor, making it particularly harmful to health. Such moonshine accounts for almost 30% of the world's drinking. The WHO estimates that alcohol results in 2.5m deaths a year, more than AIDS or tuberculosis. In Russia and its former satellite states one in five male deaths is caused by drink.
Thursday, 3 March 2011
Social media in Ireland
Social media is fast becoming the way to communicate with your target audience from teenagers to stay-at-home moms and even professionals through LinkedIn. People are looking for quick bits of information from a social network which they trust and believe in.
Some key Irish usage figures include:
Some key Irish usage figures include:- 96% of Irish internet users use Google as their search engine
- 23% of adults in the Republic use Social Networking Sites compared with 17% in Northern Ireland
- YouTube has 131,000 Irish visitors per day
- 47.5% of YouTube users are aged 25-44
- There are 1.3 million Facebook users in Ireland
- There are 150,000 Twitter users in Ireland
- Over 1 million Bebo users in Ireland and the average user spends 23 mins on the site
- LinkedIn is growing in popularity
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
My media life
Nowadays, a lot of people enjoy the media in their life. Let me talk about my total media.
I came from China, and now studing in DKIT in Ireland. There are not many entertainment. The internet is very important for me. Usually, I can use the internet to communicate with my family and friends online.
And I can get a lot of information from the internet, such as read news, get knowledge, watch video, listen music,etc. And then, I watch the TV and movies from the internet as well. so I can't leave the internet. Hahaaa...:)
I also had read some newspaper. I need know what happened around my life. Ohhh...The Dundalk cinema have the special off for student on Tusday everyweek. Sometime, I will go to the cinema to watch a movie. It's lovely.
