From the National Statistics office (PDF), via Resource Shelf:

Three out of four connections to the Internet [in the UK] are now via broadband.
In September 2006, broadband connections accounted for 75.2 per cent of all Internet connections, up from 72.6 per cent in June 2006. This is according to the latest update to the survey of Internet Service Providers [...]
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Marc Fawzi at Evolving Trends attacks the whole notion of the wisdom of crowds. It’s a development of the disappointing experience he had when digg suddenly made him the number one site on Wordpress for a short period, apparently on the basis that he had come up with a catchy headline. Marc’s issue with digg’s ability to discriminate the best …read the rest of this article