On August 4, the Spanish website www.implantecoclear.org registered one million visitors.

Opened in 1997, soon becoming the first non-commercial site in Spanish on the Cochlear Implant, remain the most important current within the Hispanic world.

Several have been the webmaster responsible for their development and maintenance, stressing the voluntary nature of all of them and still maintained today.

Some curiosities:

• 5 have been design reforms that have taken place since 1997.
• one million visits occurred between 17 and 18 hours (Spanish local time, GMT +2) on the day August 4, 2010.
• The busiest day occurred on June 2, 2010 with 1078 visits.
• The country from which you receive more visits, ignoring Spain, Argentina.
• European country from where you are visiting is Portugal.
• Days there are more visits are on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, Saturday being the least.
• More month increase in visits has been in relation to the year 2009 was in February with 29%.
• Visits from the Americas account for 31.1%.
• Have received visits from such disparate places as Japan, Australia, South Africa, Jordan, Israel, China ...
• Since 2001 the website is edited from Zaragoza

By Geoff Plant, Thursday 15 April 2010 @ 5.30pm - FREE

We're delighted to welcome Geoff Plant back to The Ear Foundation for our second Twilight Lecture of 2010 Cochlear implants have provided many profoundly deaf people with reliable access to speech, but music remains a more contentious issue, despite great technological advances over the past 20 years.

This presentation will focus on recent attempts to make music a more effective part of CI users' "acoustic environments."