The latest slice of Relevant Knowledge Inc’s Web Report has taken a look at its first timers and found – surprise! – a web of voyeurs. America’s Health Network (AHN) and Jennicam are among the top five sites to make it onto Web Report for the first time in June. AHN made headlines when a woman agreed to have the birth of her baby broadcast live on the internet (CI No 3,434), while Jennicam is a monitor-mounted still camera trained on the bedroom of a single New Yorker, 24 hours a day. The moral? The net needs a Truman Show. Sports sites also performed well in June and Relevant Knowledge reports that teen surfing is up one hour to an average of six hours per day. Meanwhile, another net stats site, eMarketer, has called into question Relevant Knowledge’s May estimate that there are 57 million netizens (CI No 3,403). eMarketer claims there are only 36 million people using the web. How to account for the discrepancy? According to eMarketer’s site, some net users are more countable than others. We take a more conservative view than others of what constitutes an ‘internet user’, the company says. For instance, we don’t include people who have access but don’t actually use the net or those that have logged on in the past but don’t regularly access the net.
