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Gadget backlash?
From Pew Internet and American Life Project: Don’t Blame Me: It’s the Phone’s Fault! Many Internet and Cell Phone Users Find Devices and Applications Too Complicated or Hardly Worth the Trouble...
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Video game effects on adolescents
This article appeared in the current Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine (July 2007, Vol. 161, No. 7): Relation of Adolescent Video Game Play to Time Spent in Other Activities, by Hope...
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Home Broadband Adoption 2007
How our patrons are accessing the internet… Summary of Findings 47% of all adult Americans have a broadband connection at home as of early 2007, a five percentage point increase from early 2006....
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Phone tools
From Gary Price’s ResourceShelf: Google Acquires GrandCentral and Other Telephone Resources A 2.0 company that allows users to centralize various phone numbers into a single number. From the blog...
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Using Technology in Instruction–MTV Style
Chronicle Careers had an interesting (tongue in cheek?) essay today on updating courses with technology: “Pimp My Course” http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2007/07/2007071101c/printable.html
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Article: “The Changing Information Services Needs of Faculty” by Roger C....
This article appears in the current issue of Educause Review: http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm07/erm0746.asp?bhcp=1 Excerpt: “…it becomes evident that faculty perceive themselves as becoming...
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Information Literacy Declining?
From Wired 15.07: “InfoPorn: Despite the Web, Americans Remain Woefully Ill-Informed” Excerpt: “A new study from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press shows that Americans, on average,...
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Article: “Kids say e-mail is, like, soooo dead”
In interviews with teen entrepreneurs at the Mashup 2007 conference, teens related their declining use of email, and even IM, in favor of text messaging and social networking sites (like MySpace and...
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Microsoft, Nickleodeon, MTV study of kids/youth and digital technology
The study covers 18,000 kids (8-14) and youth (14-24) from 16 countries. It provides lots of information on young people’s view of digital technology, including supporting the notion that young...
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Who’s online, and what are they doing?
This chart appeared on businessweek.com, June 11, 2007. Excerpt: More than 50% of U.S. online users, aged 12-26, are “joiners”, i.e., they use social networking sites.
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