China’s eBay-MySpace
In China, there is a virtual meeting place for people who have social connections to buy or sell.
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Online Patient Groups
12% of internet users participate in an online patient group.
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Campaign Watchers on the Net
That’s the percentage of U.S. adults who used the internet during the 2006 midterm election campaigns to get political news and information and to discuss the races through email. And the number of Americans using the internet as their main source of political material doubled since the last mid-term election, rivaling the number from the 2004 presidential election year.
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Spam 2007
37% of email users said spam had increased in their personal email accounts, up from 28% of email users who said that two years ago.
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Health Data Geeks’ Wisdom
Cancer “weather maps,” the age of biology, and how cell-only adults really are different from landline users.
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Digital Content and Users: Patterns and Impacts
This presentation was made at the OECD’s Workshop entitled: “The economic and social impacts of broadband communications: From ICT measurement to policy implications.”
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E-patients.net
Tom Ferguson’s spirit lives on at e-patients.net
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Briefing Panelists Debunk Online Safety Myths
The main point of the recent congressional briefing panel was to stop the misinformation and obfuscation around the issue of online child victimization, and to focus on the facts and observations that had emerged from our collective research.
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The Military’s Iraq Channel on You Tube
Looking for a way to get out its message in Iraq, the U.S. Multi-National Force Iraq has turned to You Tube and has found some success with users who have made the site one of this month’s most popular. The site aims to use footage shot by military personnel to give a fuller picture of Iraq, a spokesman says. PEJ examines the effort.
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Music, interrupted
International fans of Pandora’s streaming online music service will have to deal with a rude awakening this week when the company is forced to disable accounts based outside of the U.S. due to licensing issues.