The blog report

A new Pew Internet/​​American Life study released today reveals new stat­istics about US bloggers gleaned from 233 tele­phone inter­views selected randomly. The link leads to a full PDF of the research. These are some of the headline findings:

Blogging is bringing new voices to the online world. (54% had never been pub­lished else­where) Contrary to

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Antisocial networking

Hopefully, the news report in Red Herring that Friendster has acquired a patent on social net­working won’t mean that the article I’ve been writing on the subject won’t be out-​​​​of-​​​​date by the time it comes out. The patent, applied for in 2003 and awarded June 27th, applies to a “system, method, and appar­atus for

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