Prospero

PRONUNCIATION:

(PROS-puh-roh)

MEANING:

noun: Someone who is capable of influencing others' behavior or perceptions without their being aware of it.

ETYMOLOGY:

After Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan and a magician, in Shakespeare's The Tempest. Earliest documented use: 1785.

USAGE:

"Melliora is the Prospero who engineers a return to social order entirely in accord with her desires."
David Oakleaf (ed.), Eliza Haywood; Love in Excess; Broadview Press; 2000. 

- From wordsmith.org

A test of Global Stats web application that measures social media platforms by country

Global Stats has a web application called StatCounter.  I ran the application for social media platforms for the 6 week period of 17 FEB 2014 through 30 MAR 2014 into the geo graph option.

StatCounter Global Stats
Top Desktop, Tablet & Console Social Media Sites Per Country from W08 to W13 2014

Source: StatCounter Global Stats - Social Media Market Share

The surprise take away was the accessibility of Chinese social media users through Tumblr (54.77%)

A test of the Google trends exploration web app

I admit that I don't know much about Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Selena Gomez, or Demi Lovato. Actually, I know next to nothing except that there are millions of people submitting their names as Google search terms. The above graph show search interest in comparative scale (0-100). This geo graphic indicates that Brazilians (as a percentage of Google users) are more than twice as interested in these five celebrities than Americans. Here is one more search term comparison with Hosni Mubarak, Vladimir Putin, and Bashar al-Assad as the search terms. It is interesting that Bashar al-Assad did not achieve the level of interest as former dictator Mubarak nor President Putin despite several years of civil war and the potential use of chemical weapons.