Teens & Distracted Driving

75% of all American teens ages 12-17 own a cell phone, and 66% use their phones to send or receive text messages.

Older teens are more likely than younger teens to have cell phones and use text messaging; 82% of teens ages 16-17 have a cell phone and 76% of that cohort are cell texters.

Texting at the wheel is less common than having a conversation on the phone while driving. Looking at teens ages 16-17 who have a cell phone, 52% say they have talked on a cell phone while driving. That translates into 43% of all American teens ages 16-17.

Fully 75% of all American teens ages 12-17 now own a cell phone, and 66% use their phones to send or receive text messages. Older teens are more likely than younger teens to have cell phones and use text messaging; 82% of teens ages 16-17 have a cell phone and 76% text.

Over time, cell phones have become increasingly important fixtures in Americans’ lives and public concern over their use while driving has grown. At the time of the 2006 survey, just 35% of adult cell phone owners said they used the text messaging feature on their phones. By April 2009, the use of text messaging by cell phone owners had nearly doubled to 65%.

The State of Music Online

Information received from pewinternet.org

Napster arrived at a time when tightly controlled access to new music was still the norm.

While online radio stations were starting to flourish, music lovers were becoming disillusioned with the homogenizing effects of terrestrial radio consolidation that was enabled by the 1996 Telecommunications Act.

The revolutionary file-sharing application created by college student Shawn Fanning officially launched in June of 1999.

Project data shows that 69% of online Americans have already taken advantage of some form of cloud computing such as using webmail services, storing data online, or using other applications whose functionality is located on the web.

Alan Khazei

• Alan Khazei is one of many who is running for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the late Ted Kennedy.
• He is a non profit leader who has raised money to fund his campaign.
• Khazei is a democrat who strongly believes in the fight for health care.
• his parents were immigrants and he was able to graduate from Harvard and become a CEO
• He has had the privilege of working with Ted Kennedy in the past
• His main focuses are on education, energy and climate change, economy, health care, foreign policy, middle east policy, casino gambling, and veterans and military families.

Generations online 2009

Generation Y, or young adults generally 18-32 years old who grew up in the Information Age, have been dubbed the ‘Net Generation.’ But, while these “digital natives” may be savvier with their gadgets and more keen on new uses of technology, their elders in Generation X, the Baby Boomers and older generations tend to dominate internet use in other areas.

The biggest increase in internet use since 2005 can be seen in the 70-75 year-old age group. While just over one-fourth (26%) of 70-75 year olds were online in 2005, 45% of that age group is currently online. Much as we watch demographic and age groups move up in “degrees of access” on our “thermometers,”¹ we can probably expect to see these bars become more level as time goes on. For now, though, young people dominate the online population.006-2008.

instant messaging, social networking, and blogging have gained ground as communications tools, but email remains the most popular online activity, particularly among older internet users. Fully 74% of internet users age 64 and older send and receive email, making email the most popular online activity for this age group. At the same time, email has lost some ground among teens; whereas 89% of teens claimed to use email in 2004, just 73% currently say they use email.

Information obtained by pewinternet.org

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www.people-press.org

All across America less and less people are still believing in the global warming theory. Percentages are declining at a rapid pace. This information is valuable because if people do not feel that there is an actual issue with global warming, then they will no longer try to do things to save the earth.

Pew internet civic engagement

Information taken from http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/15--The-Internet-and-Civic-Engagement.aspx?r=1

• Whether they take place on the internet or off, traditional political activities remain the domain of those with high levels of income and education.
• There are hints that forms of civic engagement anchored in blogs and social networking sites could alter long-standing patterns that are based on socio-economic status.
• Those who use blogs and social networking sites as an outlet for civic engagement are far more active in traditional realms of political and nonpolitical participation than are other internet users. In addition, they are even more active than those who do not use the internet at all.
• The internet is now part of the fabric of everyday civic life. Half of those who are involved in a political or community group communicate with other group members using digital tools such as email or group websites.
• Those who make political donations are more likely to use the internet to make their contributions than are those who make charitable donations; however, large political donations are much less likely to be made online than are large charitable donations.

President Obama, speaking Friday, said the award was "an affirmation of American leadership."

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The committee said it honored Obama for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."

Obama said he viewed the

President Barack Obama was named the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize today (10/9/09) was it was a surprise and possibly a shock to people all over the world. He is only 1 of few presidents to receive the award. The Norwegian Nobel Committee felt that he stands for a positive process. Though some may have a problem with him winning the award, others are very proud of the President and happy for his great accomplishment.

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The Scoop (MSNBC): is a link that shows different news topics of outrageous news going on currently in the world. One that i found interesting was a video news clip of a man who broke into a house and showered, cooked and hung out in the house and it was all caught on tape.

National Enquirer: shows "breaking news" on celebrities, gossip, etc.

Law.com (Legal): posts all things dealing with the legal world

Degrees of Access (May 2008 data)

The chart breaks down race, age, education, and other forms of differences in people to show viewers the difference there is with the groups and internet use. More adults currently use cell phones than those who go online by only 5% of a difference. 73% to 78%

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

Degrees of Access (May 2008 data)

View more presentations from Pew Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center.

Pew internet usage: women and men

info provided by pewinternet.org:

-The percentage of women using the internet still lags slightly behind the percentage of men. Women under 30 and black women outpace their male peers. However, older women trail dramatically behind older men.

-Men are more avid consumers than women of online information. Men look for information on a wider variety of topics and issues than women do.

-Compared with men, online women are more likely to use the internet to: send and receive email, get maps and directions, look for health and medical information, use web sites to get support for health or personal problems, and get religious information.

-Men and women use the internet similarly for the many of the most standard kinds of transactions, from purchasing products to doing travel arrangements to banking.

-Men and women both use search engines heavily. 90% of online men and 91% of online women use search engines; 43% of those men and 39% of those women use them on an average day.

-Men are more likely than women to try new gadgets and applications and software.

BnB sites

Bridging sites:

-youtube.com: different people all over the world share videos about a variety of different things

-myspace.com: people from all over create their own pages to connect with and meet new people from all over.

-chat.yahoo.com: a chat site that people go to, to talk with and meet new people. Site contains a variety of topics people can chat about.

Bonding sites:

-helmethairblog.com: a website with blogs that only deal with talk about motorcycles

-strictlyfitteds.com: only deals with talking bout, selling, and topics dealing with fitted caps

-sneakers-websites.com: news, reviews, pics, and chat only about sneakers.

Internet Neutrality

The FCC is currently having issues in dealing with Internet sharing. Many companies believe that in order to obtain faster speed, the customer should pay more for it. President Obama (and many others) believes that the should be some type of Internet neutrality, and are trying to implement a plan in order to prevent the "information superhighway from becoming a toll road". People against the charing for faster internet feels that there should not be preferential treatment to the people that pay for it.

My position on this issue would be on the side of the President and those who want to obtain Internet neutrality. Though people should not clutter the information superhighway, i still feel that they should not be charged extra just to search things they may need to search for.

5 facts

These facts were obtained by internetworldstats.com as of 9/16/09:

-Michael Jackson had the highest rise in internet searches in the last 90 days with a rise of 2,150%

-Asia currently has the highest Internet usage with 704,213,930 users

-The English language is currently the language most used over the Internet with 748,717,443 user and a top percentage of 28.7% of total Internet users

-China comes in at #1 with the highest population of all other countries with a population of 1,338,612,968

-When comparing all of the Americas, North America has the highest percentage of usage with 58.9% of total Internet users throughout all of the Americas