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 [...]

Posted January 8, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: internet use, libraries, library, online behavior, patron behavior, pew internet, pew internet project, pip, search engine use, search engines, web searching. Be the first one.

According to the recently released Pew Internet report on online activities:
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 chatting and IMing, reading blogs or news, banking, and buying, not one of them includes searching a [...]

Posted November 23, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: google, google vs. the opac, libraries, library, library catalog, opac, pew internet, pew internet and american life project, report, search engine, search engines. 10 Comments.

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 [...]

Posted November 8, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: 4cs, collaboration, commons, community, conversation, interactivity, internet, jenny levine, pew internet, pew internet & american life project, pew internet project, social internet, social software, social web, teenagers, teens, youth. 4 Comments.