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New media usage is a commonplace activity for U.S. adults in all major political parties, according to BIGresearchs's "Simultaneous Media Usage Study."
The act of visiting Wikipedia isn't too shocking at this point. We all do it. But an interesting new Hitwise report looks at where the average American goes next.
Taking a less heavy-handed approach than the outright blocking of BitTorrent traffic, Comcast announced the company has begun negotiating ways for simultaneous existence. The announcement comes at a time when Comcast desperately needs to diffuse public, regulatory, and legislative concerns about Network Neutrality.There's also the Time Warner WiMax deal to think about.
Yahoo's recovering - sort of - from the slide that led Microsoft to make its offer. Layoffs, layoffs, and more layoffs were part of its path to improvement, though, so it's nice to hear that at least some former Yahoo employees aren't exactly wandering the streets.
Late last year, the British Prime Minister asked a clinical psychologist to look at the risks the Internet and video games pose to children. Dr. Tanya Byron has now come back with several suggestions that the government has said it will follow.
I remember sitting in on a session at one of the Search Engine Strategies conferences as a befuddled metrics firm rep told a crowd of equally befuddled marketers that a significant percentage of the search population actually typed the URL of the desired website into the search bar.
