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Government Technology: “A new study ranking government, nonprofit and industry trade groups for their use of social media and online strategies revealed that more than 50 percent of the organizations polled are not using these digital avenues as effectively as they could be. The first L2 Digital IQ Index: Public Sector was co-authored by digital …
News release: “…the FCC announced a challenge to researchers and software developers to engage in research and create apps that help consumers foster, measure, and protect Internet openness. The Open Internet Challenge is part of the FCCs efforts to empower end users to help preserve Internet openness. Details of the challenge are posted at openinternet.gov/challenge. …
Presentation: Race and Ethnicity Asian-Americans and Technology Director Lee Rainie spoke at the Organization of Chinese Americans Broadband Summit on January 6, 2011 about Pew Research examining how Asian-Americans use technology, including broadband adoption and online activities. He spoke with Tom Powers, chief of staff of the NTIA, who presented NTIA’s broadband data from its …
News release: “This report presents findings from a year-long study designed and executed by OCLC Research, the HathiTrust, New York University’s Elmer Bobst Library, and the Research Collections Access & Preservation (ReCAP) consortium, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The objective of the project was to examine the feasibility of outsourcing management of …
Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books, Published Online 16 December 2010, Jean-Baptiste Michel et al. Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1199644. “We constructed a corpus of digitized texts containing about 4% of all books ever printed. Analysis of this corpus enables us to investigate cultural trends quantitatively. We survey the vast terrain of culturomics, focusing …
“Google Refine is a power tool for working with messy data, cleaning it up, transforming it from one format into another, extending it with web services, and linking it to databases like Freebase.”
“The internet is slowly closing in on television as Americans main source of national and international news. Currently, 41% say they get most of their news about national and international news from the internet, which is little changed over the past two years but up 17 points since 2007. Television remains the most widely used …
The commercial data privacy issues discussed in the Departments green paper, Commercial Data Privacy and Innovation in the Internet Economy: A Dynamic Policy Framework, provide a clear lens through which to assess current policy. Throughout the history of the Internet as a commercial medium, the Department of Commerce has been a key avenue of government …
The Broadband Technology Opportunities Program – Expanding Broadband Access and Adoption in Communities Across America, Overview of Grant Awards, December 2010 “Broadband infrastructure serves as a key engine of economic development, enabling communities to attract, retain, and expand job-creating businesses and institutions. For example, over broadband connections, small and rural businesses are able to buy …
Google Voice Blog: “When we launched calling in Gmail back in August, we wanted it to be easy and affordable, so we made calls to the U.S. and Canada free for the rest of 2010. In the spirit of holiday giving and to help people keep in touch in the new year, were extending free …
65% of internet users have paid for online content, Jim Jansen, Senior Fellow, Pew Research Centers Internet & American Life Project, 12/30/2010 “Nearly two-thirds of internet users 65% have paid to download or access some kind of online content from the internet, ranging from music to games to news articles to adult material. …
“Mass collaboration is revolutionizing not only the way we work, but the way we live, learn, create and care for each other. Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams, authors of Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World, analyze some of the trends reshaping our world. Today: Journalism in the age of user-generated content and Wikileaks – …
