Sometimes I really wonder how intelligent the world is these days…
Posts Tagged: Knowing is half the battle
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Jan 10
How to survive in the new media ecology | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project
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Jan 10
The demographics of Facebook – Is this why the privacy policy keeps changing?
In its earliest days, Facebook was primarily a white and Asian phenomenon. No more. In the first study of the race and ethnicity of its U.S. users, Facebook said Wednesday that blacks and Latinos have joined the social networking giant at a rapid clip in the past several years.
So essentially masses of other people have joined Social Networks in droves, regardless of age, gender, or ethnicity? I understand there is a sociological value in such a study, but seriously, how much research must one do to prove the obvious?
And lets look further than the obvious – what is the value of said information? That people use social networks? That social networks are becoming popular? That Facebook is the most popular social network? But among these and many other questions, how many of these questions did we not already know the answer to before Facebook, or even before these studies?
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Dec 09
Web company CEOs call for net neutrality rules
Net neutrality rules prohibiting broadband providers from selectively blocking or slowing Web content and applications will allow an Internet “where consumers make the ultimate choices about which products succeed and which fail,” the letter said. “This allows businesses of all sizes, from the smallest startup to larger corporations, to compete, yielding maximum economic growth and opportunity.”
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“Entrepreneurs, technologists, and venture capitalists have previously been able to develop new online products and services with the guarantee of neutral, nondiscriminatory access by users, which has fueled an unprecedented era of economic growth and creativity,” the letter said. “Existing businesses have been able to leverage the power of the Internet to develop innovative product lines, reach new consumers, and create new ways of doing business.”