All Posts Tagged Pew

What social networking needs is less PR

January 8th, 2007 | No comments

I hope online predators are too busy hiding from the cops to read the latest Pew study. The premise remains – kids are smarter than their parents think. But maybe what we need is a little misinformation now and then to quell the concern. I’d like to see a study released that says “85% of [...]

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ET is not the one phoning home

July 26th, 2005 | No comments

Despite the fact that Pew says internet users are approaching the web with a bit more caution, I’ll reiterate that I view most surveys with some skepticism. Case in point – spyware reporting activity is soaring. The flip side of this coin could be that monitoring of spyware “calling home” activity is a nascent observation, [...]

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A fine time for the internet

July 7th, 2005 | No comments

How did we get here? I don’t love the internet, as it is neither my dog, my girlfriend, nor a human member of my family. I hope nobody else falls in love with it either, or they should find somebody to talk to about their social introversion. But the internet is extremely useful, and it [...]

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No Tolerance Here

April 11th, 2005 | No comments

The Pew Internet & American Life Project did a study on email and spam and came up with some interesting, if not strange conclusions. Fewer Americans mistrusted email as a result of spam, and fewer said they spent less time on email as a result of spam. The Pew study concluded Americans are becoming more [...]

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