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 [...]
November 23, 2005 – 12:53 pm
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 [...]
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Tagged with: google, google vs. the opac, libraries, library, library catalog, opac, pew internet, pew internet and american life project, report, search engine, search engines|
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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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Tagged with: internet use, libraries, library, online behavior, patron behavior, pew internet, pew internet project, pip, search engine use, search engines, web searching|
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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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Tagged with: 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|
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December 10, 2005 – 11:44 am
Somebody at Gizmodo found this Agence France-Presse story about the intersection of American surfing and bathroom habits in The Hindustan Times. It’s based on a report by the USC Annenberg School’s Center for the Digital Future. For five years running now, the center has tracked internet use (and non-use) in a 2,000 household representative sample [...]
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Tagged with: bathroom, behavior, Center for the Digital Future, computer use, in the bathroom, in the can, media, newspaper, on the throne, report, research, restroom, rss, Technology, wifi|
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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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Tagged with: 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|
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April 30, 2008 – 11:21 am
Clay Shirky recently posted a transcript of his Web 2.0 Expo keynote.
…If you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project — every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in — that represents something like the cumulation of 100 [...]
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Tagged with: Clay Shirky, leisure time, not watching television, participation, teens, television, time, time management, wikipedia|
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February 5, 2006 – 11:28 am
Anybody who questioned the Pew Internet and American Life report about how teens use the internet and how they expect conversations and interactivity from the online services they use might do well to take a look at this comment on my Chernobyl Tour story:
Student Looking for Info that your not give us
February 3rd, 2006 10:11
you [...]
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Tagged with: blog, blog comment, blog comments, blogs, blogs are conversations, comments, future libraries, internet generation, libraries, library, millennials, reference blog, social internet, social web, teens, web 2.0|
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November 15, 2007 – 5:00 am
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.
January 23, 2005 – 4:36 am
Browse happy, by the The Web Standards Project is urging people to give up on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Their solution? Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, and Safari.
March 27, 2006 – 12:12 pm
Peter Caputa dropped a comment on Jeff Nolan’s post about Zvents. The discussion was about how online event/calendar aggregators did business in a world where everything is rather thinly distributed. Part of the problem is answering how do you get people to contribute content — post their events — to a site that has little traffic, and how do you build traffic without content? The suggestion is that you have editorial staff scouring for content to build the database until reader contributions can catch up, and that’s where Peter comes in, suggesting that content and traffic aren’t where the value and excitement are: it’s the opportunity to involve fans in the event planning and marketing process.
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Tagged with: collaboration, commons, community, conversation, decision making, documentation, inclusion, involvement, jeff nolan, pete caputa, promotion, social calendaring, social software|
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November 6, 2007 – 12:25 pm
NPR : Back to School: Reading, Writing and Internet Safety
As students return to school in Virginia, there’s something new in their curriculum. Virginia is the first state to require public schools to teach Internet safety.
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Tagged with: children, education, facebook, internet, myspace, public schools, safety, social software|
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September 15, 2005 – 12:26 pm
It turns out the Internet Explorer doesn’t properly support CSS’s position: fixed. Google led me to the following:
How To Create - Making Internet Explorer use position: fixed;
doxdesk.com: software: fixed.js
Fixed Positioning for Windows Internet Explorer
The DoxDesk solution looks promising and simple, but I think bugs elsewhere in my layout are preventing it from working. It’s time [...]
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Tagged with: bugs, css, css support, doxdesk, ie, ie bug, ie bugs, ie css bug, internet exploder, internet explorer, position fixed, workaround|
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I don’t know why IE has never displayed my transparent PNGs correctly, but I know now that I’m not the only one with this complaint. Bob Osola (name?) shares my frustration, and better, he sat down and coded a solution, shared the code, and posted a wonderfully informative guide to the problem.
Not sure if your [...]
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Tagged with: frustration, ie, internet, internet exploder, internet explorer, png, pngs, portable network graphic, portable network graphics, transparency, transparent|
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February 16, 2004 – 7:09 am
Just saw a link to Newbury Open Net, a community wireless project in Boston. Newbury Open Net describes itself:
NewburyOpen.net is a network which provides high-speed Internet services, in the form of free wireless and for-pay workstations, to Boston’s residents, workers, and travelers. … We believe that high-speed Internet must become like a public utility: cheap, [...]
