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    Home Broadband 2008

    Some 55% of all adult Americans now have a high-speed internet connection at home. The percentage of Americans with broadband at home has grown from 47% in early 2007.

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    Anthropology of YouTube

    The Library of Congress invited Michael Wesch to deliver the third of four “Digital Natives” lectures. Wesch, creator of the world-famous YouTube video, “The Machine is Us/ing Us,” presented the “Anthropology of YouTube” to a packed, fascinated …

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    Participatory Medicine at NIH

    I always suspect that audience members have as much to share as I have to say. So when Mary Madden and I received an invitation to speak at the Na…

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    Data and Insights on Minority Populations

    Our sample sizes for health surveys have been too small to do in-depth analysis on race/ethnicity and economic status. One challenge is that a significant portion of the respondent pool refuses to answer the household income question (the refusal…

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    China’s earthquake and internet

    People say the Chinese internet is mostly an entertainment network. But looking at what happened online during the aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake reveals a Chinese internet with a depth and soul and much, much more.

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    Information Therapy Conference

    The Information Therapy conference just ended on Friday and my head is buzzing with a few favorite moments.

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    The internet and the 2008 election

    A record-breaking 46% of Americans have already used internet for politics this election season and Obama backers have an edge