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    Pew study on bloggers

    The amazing Pew Internet Life project has just released a study on blogging in the USA -- it's full of really chunky stats compiled from phone interviews with bloggers: "most bloggers are primarily interested in creative, personal expression -- do...

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    Survey: Bloggers Are Young Internet Users

    Bloggers are a predominantly young group of Internet users who are novice storytellers, enjoy describing their own experiences and have a growing audience in the online world.

    A glimpse of this group was put together by the Pew Internet...

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    Cell Phones: Evolution Or Revolution?

    “Take the F train from Manhattan to Brooklyn and you will experience a phone phenomenon, of sorts. As the subway lurches above ground for a stretch of two stations, teens immediately get on their cell phones, frantically sending text messages, che...

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    Online daters hopeful in search for love

    "Cautious optimism is alive and well in the world of online dating.

    Just ask Judy Lederman. In September, the public relations executive from New Rochelle, N.Y., met the perfect man on JDate.com: He was an Orthodox Jew, director of a nonpro...

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    Online daters report positive connections

    “More than a decade after the Internet became a dating mecca, a new study finds that those who have looked for relationships online have more faith in cyberspace than those who never have.

    An estimated 16 million Americans have used a dati...

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    Tech-savvy teen girls
    Older girls are `power users' among wired youngsters, a study finds

    "While working a part-time job at an engineering firm, Edgewater High School senior Michelle Tyrlik scrimped and saved for seven months so she could fulfill a longtime dream: to buy her own laptop.

    "My parents didn't help me buy it, and it'...

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    Flip Open That Cellphone: It's IM on the Move

    'In particular, IM seems to be moving onto cellphones,' said Amanda Lenhart, a research specialist for Pew Internet. 'Our sense was that text messaging and IM was beginning to blur.'

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    Pirates singing new tune as downloads see a drop

    The music industry's lawsuits against downloaders helped persuade Rob Thompson and Mike Gatti to shun the free file-sharing services on the Internet. Thompson and Gatti, who work together at a Boston ad agency, prefer to buy music at record shops ...

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    Lawsuit Threat Cuts Music Downloads; Internet Users Wary, Study Finds

    Driven largely by fears of copyright lawsuits, more than 17 million Americans, or 14 percent of adult Internet users, have stopped downloading music over the Internet... Despite the decline, the overall percentage of people who say they download m...

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    Bloggers Get Lazy

    A telephone survey conducted last spring by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found Internet users under the age of 25 are the most enthusiastic about creating content and most likely to have blogs. Older Internet users, with an average age...

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