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For News Sites, Google Is the Past and Facebook Is the Future
When it comes to attracting visitors, Google (s goog) is still a far more important source of traffic for major news websites than social media, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center,...
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Line between online and offline life continues to blur
Anyone who has spent much time on social networks knows they can actually enhance offline relationships or lead to new ones, rather than replacing activity in the “real world.” Now research has also...
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Yeah, e-books are great — but libraries are in a tough spot
New reports from the American Libraries Association and Pew Internet and American Life Project reveal that despite the increasing number of e-books available to library patrons, libraries themselves...
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It’s official: News consumption is all about social and mobile
Anyone who watches the way those around them consume the news, or thinks about their own news consumption habits, is probably well aware of how large a role social networks like Twitter and Facebook (s...
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Pew surveys young Americans on e-reading, but the data is old
A new report (PDF) from the Pew Internet and American Life Project surveyed 16- to 29-year-olds on their reading habits and library usage. That’s obviously a broad group, including both high schoolers...
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Pew: Nonprofit news sites are growing, but where’s the business model?
A new Pew report on the state of nonprofit news sites finds that the owners of these sites are optimistic about their future — but are also concerned about finances, since many of the sites operate on...
View ArticleNearly a quarter of U.S. adults owns an e-reader, but tablets are growing...
Pew released updated data Friday finding that 24 percent of American adults owns an e-reader, up from 19 percent in a November 2012 survey. For this report, Pew did phone surveys with 6,224 Americans...
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25 years after its invention, Pew data reveals how we view the web
When it comes to the internet, most Americans use it every day and view it as a beneficial source of communications in their lives. Four in ten adults view it as absolutely essential to their lives....
View ArticleThe internet of things will end expired milk at the store and your free will
If we assume that by 2025 computing will be wearable, ubiquitous in our environments and connected what happens to our society? A recent Pew report out Wednesday on the internet of things seeks to...
View ArticlePew confirms lots of social networking stereotypes
Pew has released a new report today detailing America’s usage of social networking tools, and much of the report confirms things many people already suspected. First there’s Facebook. It remains the...
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