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U.S. Broadband Adoption
Income and race are becoming less important in U.S. broadband adoption according to The Pew Internet & American Life Project report "Home…
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Google To Watchdog: Mind Your Own Business
Peter Fleischer, Google's top global privacy counsel, said data retention issues are of no concern to a European privacy watchdog group.
Using Online Panels
A while back, I wrote about online panels, a kind of focus group on steroids that companies are using to both lower their research costs and to scale survey data to be more quantitative than typical focus groups. These online panels allow more participants than focus groups, offer better representation of your target market, and scale as easily as surveys, usually at lower cost. What's…
Government Executives Need To Blog
A study by Southeastern Louisiana University professor David Wyld for IBM's Center for the Business of Government found that government blogging "does take dedication and a bit of bravery."
Doobie Brother Sics Lawyer On YouTube Embedder
You can get in trouble for embedding someone else's wife, but embedding someone else's YouTube upload? (Waiting for the rim shot. Jerks. I get no respect).
Google Scholar Put To The Test
Companies always claim to be leading in this or pioneering in that. Google Scholar is less boastful, but still says it “provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.” And so Marilyn Christianson, a librarian at Auburn University, put that assertion to the test.
