Posts Tagged ‘Study’

Via ARS Technica
By John Timmer | Published: December 28, 2008 - 09:10PM CT
People who have followed the development of the Internet are probably well aware of the Pew Charitable Trust, which has tracked the growth of the web through its Internet & American Life Project. But a separate arm of the Pew, the Research [...]

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By John Timmer | Published: November 20, 2008 - 08:55PM CT

There have been a steady stream of worries about the dangers that Internet use could pose to children, and many have dismissed these worries as overblown parental concern. The latest group to weigh in is the MacArthur Foundation, best known for handing out [...]

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By Jacqui Cheng | Published: November 17, 2008 - 11:53AM CT
No matter how into gadgets and hardware we are, we’re all forced to face a cold truth every once in a while: our PCs and gadgets sometimes break. What’s important, however, is how often it happens and how easy (or difficult, as the [...]

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By Nate Anderson | Published: November 07, 2008 - 05:10AM CT
UK analysis firm Point Topic has just released its new set of worldwide broadband figures, and the news is encouraging: broadband is getting cheaper, fast. Prices have fallen by 20 percent just in 2008, and the year’s not even over with yet.
Although the [...]

Via Tech Crunch
by Michael Arrington on November 5, 2008
a study by Anderson Analytics confirms what everyone already suspects: LinkedIn users are rich.
Nearly 60% of users have incomes of $93,000 or more. Executives with an average income of $104,000 make up 28% of the 2,000 random users polled for the study. Another 30% are [...]

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October 29, 2008 - 4:40 pm PDT - by Kevin Barenblat

At the OMMA and MIXX events last month we heard the message loud and clear – engaging users through social media is the future of marketing. The Managing Partner of Publicis’ VivaKi, David Kenny indicated never in his career [...]

Via Metro
Tech Now by Paul Brent
October 30, 2008 03:27

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from Ars Technica by jtimmer@arstechnica.com (John Timmer)
It’s easy to develop a confusing picture of what goes on inside of multiuser virtual worlds, such as Second Life and World of WarCraft. Some reports suggest that the virtual reality enables people to escape from social interactions they otherwise find difficult; others highlight how users of virtual worlds [...]

New Media Consortium 2007 Horizon Report (PDF)
The core of the report describes six areas of emerging technology that will impact higher education within three adoption horizons over the next one to five years.

Original Source: http://www.socialtext.net/wiki-government-and-democracy/index.cgi?
For both emerging and established democratic societies, the Wikinomics<!– wiki-renamed-hyperlink “Wikinomics” –> era holds the promise and the inevitability of new models for delivering the functions of government. Government 2.0: Wikinomics, Government & Democracy is a global research project that will identify and analyze emerging opportunities to harness new models of collaboration to [...]