Online Activities & Pursuits: PEW/Internet

Here are some of the latest reports from PEW/Internet under the topic Online Activities & Pursuits: PEW/Internet:

Increased Use of Video-sharing Sites
48% of internet users have been to video-sharing sites such as YouTube and the daily traffic to such sites on a typical day has doubled in the past year.

Information Searches That Solve Problems
There are [...]

Queen Elizabeth on YouTube!

  When Queen Elizabeth bestowed an honorary knighthood on Bill Gates a couple of years ago, she admitted that she had never used a computer. Well, today the oldest reigning British monarch uses e-mail, and, upon urging by her grandaughters, she has this week launched a channel on YouTube, The Royal Channel, the Official YouTube Channel for [...]

Search with Blackle and save energy (maybe)

  Are you looking for ways to save energy? Did you ever think that you could save energy when you search with Google? Well, neither did I, until I came across Blackle. Here is some background:
Blackle was created by Heap Media to remind us all of the need to take small steps in our everyday lives [...]

The effect of Web 2.0 on the future of medical practice and education: Darwikinian evolution or folksonomic revolution?

 Have you heard about Web 2.0 but have no idea what it means?  Do you think words like folksonomy and mashup and Citizendium* were coined just to annoy?  Do you want to learn more about Web 2.0?  If you do, here is a very readable article (from the August 6, 2007 issue of the Medical [...]

Folksonomies and Mashups?

  Here is an article that makes me want to go off the grid and live in a log cabin, with only a canoe and a bicycle for transportation. (But I have printed it and will dutifully read it.) The article was published recently in  the Health Information and Libraries Journal [subscription required]:
Kamel Boulos MN, Wheeler [...]

Online CME: from Medical Teacher

  These two articles were published in the November 2006 issue of Medical Teacher:
Lockyer J, Sargeant J, Curran V, Fleet L. The transition from face-to-face to online CME facilitation. Med Teach 2006; 28(7):625-630.

This study examines the experiences of nine medical teachers who transitioned from face-to-face teaching to facilitating a course in an online environment. The [...]

Riding the Waves of “Web 2.0″

  This new report about what’s evolving on the Internet was released earlier this month by PEW/Internet and American Life Project. From the site:
“Web 2.0” has become a catch-all buzzword that people use to describe a wide range of online activities and applications, some of which the Pew Internet & American Life Project has been tracking for years. [...]

Open access: implications for scholarly publishing and medical libraries

  From the July 2006 issue of the Journal of the Medical Libary Association:
Albert KM. Open access: implications for scholarly publishing and medical libraries. J Med Libr Assoc 2006; 94(3):253-262.
Purpose: The paper reviews and analyzes the evolution of the open access (OA) publishing movement and its impact on the traditional scholarly publishing model.
Procedures: A [...]

Friday Fun: Mars as big as the moon and other Internet hoaxes

   Yesterday I received an e-mail with a PowerPoint show attached, and the show told a pretty story, with music, about how Mars is going to be so close to the Earth on August 27th that it will look as large as the full moon.  Well, the person who sent the message is a very [...]

Bloggers: A portrait of the internet’s new storytellers [Pew Internet report]

    Here is a new report from Pew Internet:
Bloggers: A portrait of the internet’s new storytellers
A national phone survey of bloggers finds that most are focused on describing their personal experiences to a relatively small audience of readers and that only a small proportion focus their coverage on politics, media, government, or technology. Blogs, the [...]