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Senior Research Specialist Amanda Lenhart’s slideshow presentation, The Democratization of Online Social Networks: A look at the change in demographics of social network users over time, given at AoIR 10.0 in Milwaukee, WI on October 8, 2009.
Follow up to previous postings on Google Book Search, this insightful commentary from The American Lawyer – Scanning the Future, by Ben Hallman: “Lawyers familiar with the talks say the book publishing industry had watched in horror as the music business waged a scorched-earth campaign against file-sharing sites like Napster, only to see their profits …
Viviane Reding, Member of the European Commission in charge of Information Society and Media, The Future of the Internet and Europe’s Digital Agenda – Brussels, 6 October 2009 “In less than 10 years, the internet has grown from being a novel technical gadget application into becoming central to the economic systems of the developed world. …
National Cybersecurity Awareness Month: “October marks the sixth annual National Cybersecurity Awareness Month sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security. The theme for National Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2009 is Our Shared Responsibility to reinforce the message that all computer users, not just industry and government, have a responsibility to practice good cyber hygiene and to …
New York Times: “About two-thirds of Americans object to online tracking by advertisers and that number rises once they learn the different ways marketers are following their online movements, according to a new survey from professors at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Berkeley.” Contrary to what marketers say, Americans Reject …
Deloitte: Cloud computing – A collection of working papers, released September 17, 2009 and published on July 31, 2009. “Cloud Computing frequently is taken to be a term that simply renames common technologies and techniques that we have come to know in IT. It may be interpreted to mean data center hosting and then subsequently …
Peek: Mobile E-Mail On A Budget – Conrad J. Jacoby discusses his experiences using the Peek mobile e-mail device (Time Magazine’s 2008 Gadget of the Year), which he believes is genuinely useful and an excellent value for its cost.
An Open Technology Initiative Policy Brief – 100 Megabits or Bust! An Overview of Successful National Broadband Goals from Around the Globe, By Chiehyu Li and James Losey, New American Foundation, September 17, 2009 When the Federal Communications Commission delivers a National Broadband Plan to Congress in February 2010 the United States will not be …
Brookings: “Recognizing the need to expand the U.S. broadband network to ensure Americas infrastructure and economic development, Congress tasked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with developing a national broadband plan by February 17, 2010. On September 21, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski delivered remarks [link to transcript – 22 pages, PDF] on the national broadband plan …
News release: “With national unemployment topping 9 percent and many Americans seeking online information and new technology skills that can help keep them and their families afloat in hard times, U.S. public libraries are first responders in a time of economic uncertainty. Libraries Connect Communities 3: Public Library Funding & Technology Access Study 2008-2009, a …
The Internet as a Diversion, September 2009: “Three-quarters of online economic users go online to relax and take their minds off of the recession. Fully 88% of 18-29 year old online economic users look to the internet to relax.” See also: The Internet and the Recession, July 15, 2009 Related postings on financial system
Legal Implications of Cloud Computing – Part One (the Basics and Framing the Issues) – Attorney David Navetta contends that there there will be significant financial pressure on organizations to take advantage of the pricing and efficiency of cloud computing, and if attorneys fail to understand the issues ahead of time there is a serious …
