Feb 192010
Age of Social Network Users

New data from Pingdom on the age of social network users confirms the rumours. They are mostly quite old, or they lie a lot about their age.

The smallest group of people using social networks is the 18-24 age group, which rather confounds the idea that these sites are for young people. Across the board, only 9% of 18-24 year-olds are …read the rest of this article

Feb 012010
The Word: Publicy

You’ll have seen this word flying about recently and it’s time for some explanations.
Err… don’t you mean ‘publically’? ['publicly' if you're American]
No. Well, in some ways, yes, I do. Let me explain.
In the past, there has been an assumption that privacy was the default state of human existence. It was only when you, someone or something else acted on that …read the rest of this article

Old Dogs; New Tricks

Posted by Ian Delaney at 1:57 pm stuff
Jan 092010
Old Dogs; New Tricks

Pew Research Center reports that older people are almost as likely to embrace technological change as young people:
…innovations in cell phones, email and online shopping are seen as changes for the better by most Americans with positive views reaching well beyond the youngest Millennial generation. These kinds of change are viewed at least as favorably by Americans in their 30s …read the rest of this article

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Social tools, devices and web evolution are creating epochal change in media, society and business. The plan is to hide under the floorboards until it's all over document some of the more interesting parts of that change. Written by Ian Delaney. More here...

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