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Introduction The Pew Internet & American Life Project, in a series of reports starting in May 2000, has found that email and the Internet foster social connectedness.  Our first report, “Tracking Life Online,” found that Internet users perceive email as a valuable way to stay in touch with family and friends, with many people—especially women—reporting […]

Introduction The Internet is an unparalleled medium for global communication, but it also has the potential to give people more information about what is going on in their local community.  On balance, however, the vast majority of Internet users say that the Internet is a useful tool for becoming involved in things going on outside […]

Sites with Multiple Activities As covered entities establish an online presence, their online collection and transmission of personal health information will be regulated by the privacy rule.  Even if a company is a covered entity, however, it is not obvious whether all information collected by the entity at its Web site is covered.  Most health-related […]

Introduction Austin has experienced a high-tech boom in the past ten to fifteen years that has transformed a university and state government town into one of the country’s most dynamic technological environments.  Leading the boom has been electronics manufacturing, primarily semiconductors.  Firms such as IBM, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), and Motorola all have large semiconductor […]

Introduction Nashville’s business community has been active, if not wildly successful, in attempting to catch the wave of dot.com riches in the New Economy.  Nashville’s economy is service oriented, with health care and country music being the region’s dominant and highest profile business sectors.[10.numoffset=”10″ The major technology employer in the area is Dell Computers, which […]

Many use the Internet to connect with online communities that embrace their hobbies, their professions, their passions, and their beliefs 28 million go online with church groups, sports leagues, and social organizations in their home towns WASHINGTON-The Internet allows tens of millions of Americans to participate in a thriving social world where they enjoy serious […]

The dot-com meltdown and the Web Background In mid-March, the Pew Internet & American Life Project issued a report entitled “Risky Business: Americans see greed, cluelessness behind dot-com’ comeuppance.”[1. See: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/Reports/2001/Risky-Business-Americans-see-greed-cluelessness-behind-dotcoms-comeuppance.aspx] Six months after asking online Americans about how the impact of Internet companies’ problems on their experiences on the Internet, we decided to ask […]

Introduction Cleveland, though not known as a hotbed of Internet activity, is taking some innovative approaches to using the Internet for economic and social purposes.  Most prominently, the city is using approximately $3 million in revenue from cable fees to subsidize Internet access and computer training through community development corporations (CDCs).  A number of CDCs […]

Background There has been an aggressive national campaign to bring computers and the Internet into schools since 1996. The Telecommunications Act passed that year created the E-Rate program, which provided discounts of 20%-to-90% to schools (depending upon the number of poor children in a district) to purchase Internet access for the school or library. The […]