Eurostat 2006: Internet usage in the EU25: “Nearly half of individuals in the EU25 used the internet at least once a week in 2006 and a third of households and three-quarters of enterprises had broadband internet access.” Statistics Denmark 2007: Access to the Internet: 78% of population has home internet access.

Posted November 15, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: danish, denmark, European, internet usage, statistics. Be the first one.

It can be hard for library folk to imagine that the web development world might be as divided about the meaning and value of “Web 2.0” as the library world is about “Library 2.0,” but we/they are. Take Jeffrey Zeldman’s anti-Web 2.0, anti-AJAX post, for instance. Zeldman’s a smart guy, and he’s not entirely off-base, [...]

Posted April 4, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: arguments, definition, definitions, future internet, future libraries, internet, internet usage, jeffrey zeldman, lib20, library 2.0, michael calore, tim o'reilly, web 2.0. One Comment.

We can be forgiven for not noticing, but the world changed not long ago.
Sometime after the academics gave up complaining about the apparent commercialization of the internet, and while Wall Street was licking it’s wounds after the first internet boom went bust, the world changed.
Around the time we realized that over 200 million Americans have [...]

Posted January 23, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: arrival, cultural effects, culture, future libraries, information age, internet, internet usage, libraries, library, networked information, reality, science fiction, social change, society, stupendous, tiny marvels. 19 Comments.

In recognition of the divisive and increasingly meaningless nature of x.0 monikers — think library 2.0 and the web 2.0 that inspired it — I’m doing away with them.
When Jeffrey Zeldman speaks with disdain about the AJAX happy nouveaux web application designers and the second internet bubble (and he’s not entirely off-base) and starts claiming [...]

Posted January 17, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: change, conflict, divisive, internet usage, internet use, label, lib20, library 2.0, library20, massive social change, moniker, monikers, web 2.0, web20. 4 Comments.

Rebecca Lieb reports for ClickZ Stats that, based on US Census data (report), most Americans have PCs and web access:
Sixty-two million U.S. households, or 55 percent of American homes, had a Web-connected computer in 2003, according to just-released U.S. Census data. That’s up from 50 percent in 2001, and more than triple 1997’s 18 [...]

Posted January 16, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: access, census, critical mass, information age, internet access, internet usage, networked information, statistics, the coming information age, us census, usage statistics. 4 Comments.

A while ago I reported on the Pew Internet Project’s November 2005 report on increased use of search engines. Here’s what I had to say at the time:
On an average day, about 94 million American adults use the internet; 77% will use email, 63% will use a search engine.
Among all the online activities tracked, including [...]

Posted January 8, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: internet, internet usage, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, library evolution, library usage, library20, online activities, online behavior, online libraries, online library, pew internet and american life project, pew internet project, search engine, search engine use, search engines, web searching. Be the first one.