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Mad Men Audience: Drunks

Hamilton Nolan · 10/15/08 04:21PM

Well now, we got our hands on a survey of people who watch Mad Men, the critically acclaimed show that consists of sex, sexism, cigarettes, booze, boozy sex, racism, and a bit of advertising. And guess what? The audience appears to be made up of off-the-charts alcoholics. Forty-seven times the normal rate of hard Irish Whiskey drinkers, for example. But there's one stunning twist in all this here data!

New York Is Full Of Poors (Like You)

Hamilton Nolan · 04/14/08 10:45AM

The United Way and the Community Service Society have just released a slew of demographic maps of New York City, which handily answer the question: Are The Poors in your hood? Pictured, the household income map (click to enlarge), which is perhaps most surprising for revealing that Williamsburg, despite its yuppie influx, is still broke, along with HOT HOT NEXT BIG THING neighborhoods like Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, et al. After the jump, neighborhood-specific maps of the city showing unemployment rates, immigrant populations, and "disconnected youth" who aren't working, in school, or concerned about you very much.

Digg users: Like a pack of wild dogs

dtweney · 01/26/07 05:19PM

The more traffic your web site gets, the better — unless it's Digg traffic. Getting dugg can bring server-crushing loads of traffic to a site, but readers coming from Digg spend, on average, 3.6 seconds on a site before they bounce off to the next flavor of the moment. Either they're really fast readers, or they're just looking at the pictures. It's even worse when Digg readers stick around, because they'll litter your comments with increasingly strident and off-topic remarks. "The worst in human behavior comes and sits on your front porch, begging for your attention," complains the search engine consultant who analyzed Digg users' behavior. Now she just wants Diggers to — please! — stop bothering her.