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Tagging, blogging, and social networking sites allow internet users to search for, catalog, and disseminate information.
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Tagging, blogging, and social networking sites allow internet users to search for, catalog, and disseminate information.
28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts. Findings and interview with David Weinberger
The base of the internet is broadening to include more people with less education than ever before, while older Americans are still overwhelmingly offline. Internet users who have experienced spyware act differently online from those who have not….
That’s the portion of campaign internet users — adults who used the internet during the 2006 midterm election campaigns to get political news and information and discuss the races through email — who also used the internet to create and share political content. These creators are particularly active in every type of online political activity.
More than half (55%) of all online American youths ages 12-17 use online social networking sites.
The impact of the internet is evident in many ways in China
Some critics have assailed Time magazine’s choice for 2006 Person of the Year in recent days, calling the editors’ selection of “You” with a mirror on the cover gimmicky. But this wasn’t the first unconventional choice for Time’s honor – or the first time a group of people was selected. PEJ takes stock of Time’s past Persons of the Year from 1927 on.
Nearly two in five adult internet users in the U.S. (39%) have gone online to look for information about a place to live, up from 34% in 2004 and 27% in 2000.
51% of internet users ages 18 to 29 have looked online for housing information and 9% do so on a typical day.
More than half of internet users have taken virtual tours — nearly doubling the number who had done so in late 2004.
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