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    Pew: Web 2.0 Is Web 1.0

    "Pew Internet and American Life Project released a six-page analysis of Web 2.0, attempting to define, exactly, what types of Internet applications the phrase covers. The end result: like porn, we know Web 2.0 when we see it; and Web 2.0 has been ...

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    Just An Online Minute... Web 2.0: Searching For A Definition

    Everyone's heard of "Web 2.0" But many--even the people who use the term most often--are hard-pressed to articulate how "Web 2.0" differs from the Internet before 2004, when the term was coined. This morning, the Pew Internet Project, using data f...

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    Portrait of a Blogger: Under 30 and Sociable

    They consider themselves digital natives.

    They're young. They're addicted to instant messaging and social networks. And they're more apt to dish about the drama at last night's party than the president's latest faux pas.

    Blog...

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    Survey of the Blogosphere Finds 12 Million Voices

    Despite a potentially vast audience in cyberspace, the Pew project found that 52 percent of bloggers said they blogged mostly for themselves. When asked for a major reason for blogging, 52 percent said it was to express themselves creatively and ...

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    Who Are All These Bloggers?

    When I hear the word "bloggers," I tend to think of the A-listers. But the top 100 are not the quarry of the Pew Internet & American Life Project telephone survey of bloggers, published today. They're stalking the larger universe of 12 million adu...

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    Pew study on bloggers

    The amazing Pew Internet Life project has just released a study on blogging in the USA -- it's full of really chunky stats compiled from phone interviews with bloggers: "most bloggers are primarily interested in creative, personal expression -- do...

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    Survey: Bloggers Are Young Internet Users

    Bloggers are a predominantly young group of Internet users who are novice storytellers, enjoy describing their own experiences and have a growing audience in the online world.

    A glimpse of this group was put together by the Pew Internet...

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    Digital Divide Closing as Blacks Turn to Internet

    The sharpest growth in Internet access and use is among young people. But blacks and other members of minorities of various ages are also merging onto the digital information highway as never before. According to a Pew national survey of people...

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    A Generation Serves Notice: It's a Moving Target

    “Joe Hanson, 22, of Chicago likes to watch television, but rarely on his TV. A folder on his computer lists an inventory of downloaded cable and network programming - the kind of thing that makes traditional media executives shudder.

    He is ...

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    A.T.M.'s Pick Up Web Site Tricks

    "Those ubiquitous A.T.M.'s are about to get considerably smarter. Wells Fargo, the Bank of America and other financial institutions are giving their painfully low-tech A.T.M.'s a dose of Internet technology aimed at speeding transactions, redu...

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