Wikipedia The Wonder

May 11, 2007 – 12:24 pm

Middlebury College banned it, but 46% of college students and 50% of college grads use it.
Twelve year olds point out errors in its competition, while those over 50 are among its smallest demographic — just 29% (Just! 29%!) say they’ve used it.
It’s Wikipedia, of course, and the numbers come from a recent Pew Internet Project [...]

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The Library vs. Search Engine Debate, Redux

January 8, 2006 – 12:14 pm

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 [...]

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More Trends In Online Behavior From Pew Internet

January 8, 2006 – 10:18 am

It turns out that the Pew Internet and American Life Project sort of keeps a blog. Here are some points from a November 2004 post by project director Lee Rainie regarding ?surprising, strange, and wonderful data:?

The vast majority of most Internet users (80%) and many non-users (about 40%) expect that they will be able to [...]

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Internet, Interactivity, & Youth

November 8, 2005 – 1:40 pm

Jenny Levine alerted me to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report on teens as both content creators and consumers.
It turns out that teens, and teen girls especially, are highly active online IMing, sharing photos, blogging, reading and commenting on other’s blogs, and gaming. An especially strong trend in this group is the use [...]

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