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News release: “The Federal Communications Commission released its National Broadband Plan Consumer Survey, Broadband Adoption and Use in America, which found that affordability and lack of digital skills are the main reasons why 93 million Americans — one-third of the country — are not connected to high-speed Internet at home…As part of the plan, the …
The Future of the Internet IV: “Experts and stakeholders say the Internet will enhance our intelligence not make us stupid. It will also change the functions of reading and writing and be built around still-unanticipated gadgetry and applications. The battle over control of the internet will rage on and debates about online anonymity will …
WSJ: The Digital Dictatorship Evgeny Morozov on the myth of the techno-utopia. – “It’s fashionable to hold up the Internet as the road to democracy and liberty in countries like Iran, but it can also be a very effective tool for quashing freedom…For example, while the American public is actively engaged in a rich and …
Follow up to previous postings on Google Book Search, this annotated public interest resource: “The Public Index is a project of the Public-Interest Book Search Initiative and the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School. We are a group of professors, students, and volunteers who believe that the Google Book Search …
Internet Use in the United States: 2009 Tables with national- and state-level data showing who is accessing the Internet, cross-tabulated by age, sex, race, Hispanic-origin, educational attainment and employment status. State data show Internet usage at home versus use at other locations. Also included is whether people are using broadband or dial-up for Internet …
Security Labs Report Jul 2009-Dec 2009 Recap – “This report has been prepared by the M86 Security Labs team. It covers key trends and developments in Internet security over the last six months, as observed by the security analysts at M86 Security Labs. M86 Security Labs is a group of security analysts specializing in Email …
LLRX.com: Preserving Born-Digital Legal Materials – Where to Start?: Sarah Rhodes discusses the monumental challenge of preserving our digital heritage. She argues that law libraries specifically have a critically important role to play in this undertaking as access to legal and law-related information is a core underpinning of our democratic society. Our current digital preservation …
Moving Targets: Web Preservation and Reference Management – Richard Davis discusses the role of Web preservation in reference management in an article based on a presentation given at the Innovations in Reference Management workshop January 2010. “Web Preservation is one field of endeavour which attempts to counter the Webs transient tendency, and a variety of …
News release: “The Federal Communications Commission today released the first High-Speed Services for Internet Access report Report [see also the related Maps] to be based on the new census tract-based Form 477 data collection requirements. The FCC has collected information from facilities-based broadband service providers since 2000. In 2008, the FCC released orders implementing significant …
Social Transmission and Viral Culture, by Jonah Berger, assistant professor of Marketing and Katherine L. Milkman, assistant professor of Operations and Information Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. “People often share news, opinions, and information, and social transmission shapes both individual behavior and collective outcomes. But why are certain things more viral than …
News release: “Microsoft Corp. and the National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced an agreement that will offer individual researchers and research groups selected through NSF’s merit review process free access to advanced cloud computing resources. By extending the capabilities of powerful, easy-to-use PC applications via Microsoft cloud services, the program is designed to help broaden …
Social Media & Mobile Internet Use Among Teens and Young Adults: “Two Pew Internet Project surveys of teens and adults reveal a decline in blogging among teens and young adults and a modest rise among adults 30 and older. Even as blogging declines among those under 30, wireless connectivity continues to rise in this age …
