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  • Most Americans using Internet often prefer offline methods

    The Internet's everyday appeal among adult Americans is broad but shallow, concludes the study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, which found that two-thirds of Internet-using Americans favor more conventional ways of communicating, gett...

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  • A look at the pros and cons of e-government

    The world is heading online, and that includes our public governmental agencies. In a recent report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project on "how Americans get in touch with government," the conclusion is drawn that "Internet users benefit f...

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  • Survey: E-Government Slowly Winning Acceptance

    Telephones, letters and face-to-face contact still beat out the Internet when it comes to how Americans choose to interact with their government, according to a report released earlier this week by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

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  • Survey shows Web doesn’t replace personal contact

    According to research released today by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 97 million Americans either used government Web sites or e-mailed government officials in 2003, 50 percent more than in 2002.

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  • How do musicians feel about Internet file-sharing?

    With all of the hullabaloo about music file sharing on the Internet, perhaps it's time to ask the musicians themselves about how they feel. The Pew Internet & American Life Project has done just that, surveying 2,755 musicians and songwriters betw...

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  • World of computers open as 76-year-old finds ‘On’

    Tuesday morning. Just before 9. Everett Gourley is first to arrive to class. He walks in the door, shakes his instructor's hand, smiles. "I did not sleep well last night," he says. He is 76 years old, and he has spent much of his adult life around...

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  • Pirates singing new tune as downloads see a drop

    The music industry's lawsuits against downloaders helped persuade Rob Thompson and Mike Gatti to shun the free file-sharing services on the Internet. Thompson and Gatti, who work together at a Boston ad agency, prefer to buy music at record shops ...

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