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Daily Number: Most Have Broadband Internet Connections at Home – Pew Research Center.
65% of internet users have paid for online content
If you’re a blogger looking to generate revenue, here’s something that might interest you…
“Nearly two-thirds of internet users – 65% – have paid to download or access some kind of online content from the internet, ranging from music to games to news articles to adult material. Music, software, and apps are the most popular content that internet users have paid to access or download, although the range of paid online content is quite varied and widespread.” Source: 65% of internet users have paid for online content | Pew Research Center’s Internet.
Pew always does a good job! If you’d like to read the entire study, you can go to the source. Comment, call or use the contact form to connect so we can talk about how this applies to your business…
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Blogs Take Test of Faith
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A news report that challenges conventional wisdom, especially one about a personal/cultural topic like religion, is often rich fodder for online conversation. This was the case last week as a Pew Research Center survey showing that atheists and agnostics were more knowledgeable about religion than followers of major faiths drew significant attention.
For the week of Sept. 27 to Oct. 1, almost a quarter (23%) of the news links on blogs were to a Los Angeles Times story about the survey, making it the No. 1 subject, according to the New Media Index from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.
The survey from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found that non-believers were able to answer more questions about religion correctly than believers, even when one controlled for educational background. It also showed that people were ill-informed on some of the questions related to their own religion. A majority of Protestants, for example, were unable to identify Martin Luther as the primary figure behind the Protestant Reformation. (The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Project for Excellence in Journalism are both are part of the Pew Research Center.)
via pewresearch.org
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Electronic media usage by children reaches record high
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Apparently electronic media is equal to a full time job for most kids…
“The findings, out today in a Kaiser Family Foundation survey of 2,002 people ages 8 to 18, show that young people spend seven hours and 38 minutes using media in a typical day — up from six hours and 19 minutes a decade earlier.
About the only thing that seems to be fading: ink. Though daily book readership has held steady at about 47% since 1999, the percentage of young people who say they read a magazine every day has plummeted from 55% to 35%. It’s worse for newspapers, down from 42% to 23%.
Electronic media are now “a part of the air that kids breathe,” says Vicky Rideout, director of Kaiser’s Program for the Study of Media and Health.
African-American and Hispanic kids spend nearly one-third more time each day with electronics than white kids. Among other findings:
- Cellphone ownership has increased sharply since 2004, from 39% to 66%.
- Ownership of iPods has jumped even more since 2004, from 18% to 76%.
- 20% of kids’ media comes via mobile devices.
The near-ubiquity of mobile devices has had a profound effect on kids’ free time, filling up “the insterstitial spaces” in their daily lives, says Amanda Lenhart of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. She jokes that iPods and cellphones may be this generation’s “magazines and chewing gum,” harmless ways to fill time.” Source: Kids’ electronic media use jumps to 53 hours a week – USATODAY.com
What does this say about our culture? Our future? The future of newspapers? I have a thousand questions. What about you?
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