Archive for January 5th, 2006

Internet Pulse Point on Newbury Street in Boston

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

Steve Garfield, a video blogger who attends blog group meetings, produced a news story about an Internet pulse point on Newbury Street in Boston for Rocketboom, a popular video news blog (vlog). Are these high-powered points of Internet connectivity going to be the next big thing? Find out.

Gender and Internet Use

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

The Pew Internet & American Life Project’s new report How Women and Men Use the Internet shows that women are closing the Internet use gender gap. Men still generally use the Internet more than women, but women 18-29 years old, married women, and African-American women use the Internet more than men. Women also use the [...]

Wikipedia News Summary and Look at Wikipedia in Other Languages

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

"I think an enormous number of problems in the world are just caused by a lack of information, a lack of understanding, a lack of reflection," explains Jimmy Wales about the importance of access to free, neutral information, especially in certain regions of the world in this Christian Science Monitor article. As well as summarizing [...]