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    Podcast Downloading 2008

    As gadgets with digital audio capability proliferate, podcast downloading continues to increase. Currently, 19% of all internet users say they have downloaded a podcast.

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    Podcasts Proliferate, But Not Mainstream

    Nearly one in five internet users (19%) has downloaded a podcast to listen to or view later — up from 12% in 2006. But podcasting has yet to become a fixture in the everyday lives of internet users, as very few download podcasts on a typical day.

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    Methodology

    Sites Studied The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism analyzed the components of the campaign Web sites of presidential candidates John McCain (R) and Barack Obama (D). John McCain (R) http://johnmccain.com/ Barack Obama (D) http://www.barackobama.com/ In addition to the Web sites as a whole, the Project conducted a text analysis of each candidate’s […]

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    Quesions and Data

    Spring Tracking Survey 2008 Final Topline, 5/19/08 Data for April 8 – May 11, 2008 Princeton Survey Research Associates International for the Pew Internet & American Life Project  Sample: n = 2,251 adults, age 18 and olderInterviewing dates: 04.08.08 – 05.11.08 Margin of error is plus or minus 2 percentage points for results based on total […]

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    Other Findings

    In 1998, fewer than half of Americans said they had a home computer. Few logged on to the internet and if they did, they used a slow-moving dial-up modem. Today, far more people have access to high-speed internet connections in their homes than had a home computer a decade ago (58% vs. 43%). This just […]

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    Engagement and Participation

    During the primary-election examination, the Obama Web site focused heavily—more than that of any other candidate from either party—on engaging supporters and motivating them to turn their enthusiasm into on-the-ground, grassroots activities. Since the primary season, the Obama campaign has managed to stay more than a few steps ahead of the McCain campaign on both […]

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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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    Polling in the age of cell phones

    Introduction In the past few years, the growing number of Americans living in households without landline telephones has challenged survey researchers to develop a variety of approaches to deal with this non-coverage issue. One approach is to add interviews over the cell phone to traditional random digit dial surveys of landline telephones.1 Adding cell phone […]

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    Teens’ online activities and gadgets

    Introduction Fully 93% of teens use the internet, and teen use of the internet has intensified in recent years. In 2006, 89% of teens accessed the internet from home.  This is fairly consistent with our survey data from 2000 and 2004, which showed that a similar percentage of teens accessing the internet from home. Home […]

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    Cancer Research, Vouchers on ’07 Ballots

    Proposals on cancer research and school vouchers are among the questions that voters in seven states will take up during this fall’s quiet election season.