The Strangest Protest I Ever Took Part In
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutesThe last time I protested something we had no Internet tools at our disposal. #SOPAStrike was the strangest protest I ever took part in.
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Jan 2012
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Dec 2009
Digital Divide Continues – eMarketer
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via emarketer.com
This is pretty interesting – according to a study by the Internet Innovation Alliance, only 42% of African-American and Hispanic consumers use the Internet regularly.
What might change that? The article reads:
“It is very telling that of those respondents who do not have Internet access, 43 percent cited either not knowing how to use the Internet or not seeing the need for the Internet as the reason why they are not online,” said Internet Innovation Alliance co-chairman David Sutphen, in a statement.
“But interestingly, 44 percent of these same respondents said […]
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Feb 2009
Home Is Where The Mouse Is… Maybe
Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutesA few days ago, Pew Research’s “Daily Number” was 38%: the percentage of Americans who, having lived in more than one place, don’t consider their current community home. Given that this is a country of immigrants, that isn’t surprising, and a feeling I (a naturalized American of East Indian origin) can relate to.
A couple of days later, we had a friend over for lunch. Canadian-born, he’s worked all over the world, including in several African countries, and now calls Liverpool, U.K., home. At one point he asked, […]