Archive for the ‘Computers’ Category
Over 50 crowd ignored
Wired magazine reports that the over 50 crowd is ignored.
Rise of the Silver Surfers: The Over-50 Social Media Opportunity
UK regulatory agency Ofcom released a report today that sheds more light on a market niche that is consistently ignored by Silicon Valley: The over-50 crowd. The report states, “‘Silver surfers’ also account for an increasing amount of internet use with nearly 30 percent of total time spent on the internet accounted for by over-50s …”
Southwest Airlines Blogs
A new way to connect with customers, start a blog!
Southwest Airlines blog takes off
DALLAS Southwest Airlines has joined the world of bloggers, launching its own online diary in which employees will write about their jobs and the travel industry.
One of the first entries on the blog this week was a marketing executive musing that many people think Southwest only carries vacationers and not business travelers.
Southwest officials say the blog will be a good way to connect with customers.
Eighth Graders learn Social Studies through blogging
An eight grade teacher has her students blog. I like her attitude that her students need to learn computers. This is a great way to teach students to how to communicate effectively online as well as learn important issues affecting today’s society.Students use blogs to study the world
“I’m not the greatest computer person in the world,” said Chamberlin, who teaches at St. Roch School on Indianapolis’ Southside. “But they have to be.”The students spent class Thursday in front of computers researching world issues online and writing short entries in a journallike format on a Web site. Each blog focuses on a single issue.
Laptop advice
Here’s the place to ask questions about laptops!Â
Desperate Housewives FREE
Ok… if you missed a Desperate Housewives episode, don’t worry! ABC announced that they will allow Desperate Housewives and other shows to be shown online the day after they air for free. Of course, you MUST sit through commericials… or it would not be free! Your other alternative to commercial free television is to download the episodes from iTunes for $1.99.
ABC Frees “Desperate” and “Lost” Online
New episodes of Desperate Housewives, Lost, Commander in Chief and Alias will appear on ABC.com the day after they air.
ABC is no stranger to the portable entertainment pool, having been the first network to offer shows for downloading via Apple’s iTunes Music Store. Lost, Alias and the other series heading to ABC.com are already available for downloading and commercial-free viewing for $1.99 a pop. Lost has been ABC’s most popular offering to date, and both the not so deserted island adventure and Desperate Housewives have seen their iTunes numbers increase this year. Unlike the iTunes episodes, ABC.com’s streamed shows cannot be ported to an iPod or downloaded to a file for later viewing on a laptop. (The shows will be available in Flash for PCs and Macs.)
Are blogs peaking?
The Washington Post reports blogs might be peaking.Â
30 million blogs and counting…
By Frank Ahrens
It’s remarkable to think that technology adoption is moving so fast that Web logs — the earliest U.S. reference to “blog” that I can find was in a 2000 CNN technology report, showing its relative youth — could already be thought of as maturing. But that is a maxim of technology: As we get more accustomed to interfacing with tech, each new gizmo — be it a TiVo, an iPod or a blog — has a faster “uptake,” or acceptance into society, than what came before. For example, DVD players hit the 20 million mark in sales in one-third the time it took VCR players to reach the same penetration.
Part of the blog drag could be a function of age — bloggers and blog readers came of age with the Internet, and there are only so many young people out there. A recent Pew Internet & American Life Project study showed that 19 percent of teenagers and 20 percent of young adults are likely to start a blog — the highest numbers of any age group. Only 9 percent of Gen-Xers are likely to start blogs, the same percentage as 51-to-59-year-olds.
Online Annoyance
A new law protects you from annoying anonymous emails and online comments.
Annoying Online Posts Could Be Illegal
Writing annoying, anonymous online posts or e-mails could land you in jail for as long as two years. That’s according to the Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005, which was signed into law last week.
According to a section of the act, anyone who uses the Internet anonymously “with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass another person” can be tried for violating federal telecommunications law and face fines or jail.
Mozart online
The British Library never stops to amaze me. They have created an online catalog of Mozart’s works.
Mozart’s musical diary goes online
LONDON (Reuters) - A musical diary by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart goes online on Thursday, allowing Internet users to browse handwritten pages from the composer’s catalog and listen to the opening bars of rarely performed works.
The British Library in London has produced a digital version of 30 pages and 75 musical introductions from “Catalog of all my Works,” which can be accessed on its Web site www.bl.uk/turningthepages.
Milblogging: Exposing sensitive information
The worry about military blogging is the fact that many military officials want to control the information being disseminated over the Internet. Sensitive information could accidentally become available to the enemy. But, milbloggers intially just want to communicate with family back home.
Blogs offer taste of war in Iraq
By Kevin Anderson
BBC News
The war in Vietnam is often referred to as the first war on television, and the wars in Afghanistan and now in Iraq will be known as the first wars to be blogged.
A new generation of soldier bloggers in the US, known as milbloggers, are both fighting in the field and writing about their experiences.
It is opening up a new window on modern warfare and is creating a new genre of war-time writing.
However, some of these pioneering frontline bloggers fear that the golden age of milblogging has already passed as military officials begin to clamp down on the unfettered online writing.
And here’s another article: US Military Finds Soldiers’ Blogs Too Close For Comfort
Gender differences
A new Pew survey found the differences between male and females who use the Internet. I didn’t see any great finds. They found women like to communicate online ,while men just want the facts!
Study Shows Differences in Internet Use
By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer
NEW YORK - Women are now as likely to use the Internet as men — about two-thirds of both genders — yet a new study shows that gaps remain in what each sex does online.
American men who go online are more likely than women to check the weather, the news, sports, political and financial information, the Pew Internet and American Life Project reported Wednesday. They are also more likely to use the Internet to download music and software and to take a class.
Online women, meanwhile, are bigger users of e-mail, and they are also more likely to go online for religious information and support for health or personal problems.
“For men, it’s just, `Give me the facts,” said Deborah Fallows, who wrote the report based on six years of Pew surveys. “For women, it’s `Let’s talk about this. Are you worried about this problem?’ It’s keeping in touch and connecting with people in a richer way.”
About two-thirds of the 6,403 adults surveyed by Pew during 2005 said they use the Internet. By gender, it was 68 percent of the male respondents, and 66 percent of the female participants — a statistically insignificant difference given the study’s margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.
