Teen and Distracting Driving

Because of my own life and what i've seen from most of my friends I'm surprise to see the number for teen texting to be 34% in the study, translating into 26% overall. I would think that it would be inching toward 50%.

The 52% that talks and drive is about what I thought it would be if not a little bit higher.

Declining of the album sales due to file sharing software such as Napster, early on, now others who has followed that path. Personally I feel that file-sharing is a way for the consumer to have somewhat control, to go out and buy a CD and it only have maybe two good songs is giving money away. Now artists have to prove to their fans that their CD are worth buying, are worthing investing in.

View of Alan Khazei

On his visit to American International College Alan Khazei, who is running for the late Ted Kennedy's senate seat, unveil his health care plan. His health care plan consist of a strong public option that would create competition with the private insurers. also a exchange networks for small businesses. Running on a platform similar to Kennedy's, on social issues that need to be reprimanded so they can better serve the people. His plan is base on morality and not politics, and that may be the reason for failure, sadly enough.

Generational Differences in Online Activities

Generation Y has the most connectivity to the internet

G.I. generation is lowest population overall, and low on internet connectivity.

Young Boomers seem to be in the middle.

Fewer Americans See Solid Evidence of Global Warming

Its an issue of choosing what to believe and what not to believe despite the facts. Some may see that believing it would lead to too much work to fix it, too much money. So, they feel by continuously denying it, it will either go away or become someone else's problem. That is the irresponsible way of dealing with a problem that should be more in Americans, and the world at large, faces. The facts are there, reality shows her face more and more every year with the ice caps melting, and temperatures rising steadily every year.

President Obama award the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_nobel_peacePresident Barack

Obama surprising announcement as the Winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize has a lot of people talking. U.S Republican Party Chairman Michael Steel says he won the prize with "star power" not for meaningful accomplishments.

The Nobel Committe Chairman Thorbjoern Jagland says that its not prematurely or too early, that now is our opportunity to respond. Meaning our time to act and too change, President Obama has become the face of change. People are inpatient and want result now, though it took 8 to 10 years to get here.

What I believe has happen is the Nobel Committee has given President Obama a larger platform to spread his ideas and leadership.

3 Link You Need To Check Out!

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2009/10/06/joy.black.dancing.with.the.stars.cnn

Joy Behar interviews comedian Lewis Black on his take on President Barack Obama.

http://www.blackvoices.com/newsarticle/_a/ex-foster-child-now-1-million-scholar/20091006084909990001

Ex-Foster Child Now $1 million Scholar, in inspirational story.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/123497/Parties-Nearly-Tied-Congress-2010.aspx

Parties Nearly Tied for Congress in 2010, Poles done to see parties registered voters for the 2010 congress election.

Degrees of Access (May 2008 data)

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Degrees of Access (May 2008 data)

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18-29 years have the highest access to the internet 90%. 50-64 year olds are at 70% which surprise me I thought maybe 65%.

59% African Americans access the internet.

The Ethnicity thats has the lowest percentage 41% in all Three slides are African Americans.

High school graduates have a low percentage 39% in using high speed connections. Just graduating from high school, may not have a high enough income to purchase unless being supplied by parents or academic facilities.

Those who has no high school degree has the lowest percentage at 29%, other then 65+ years old which is at 19%.

Interactive Internet

On the website Pewinternet.org I was able to view many studies that intrigue me, such as "Teens and Mobile Phones Over the Past Five Years..." From 2004 to 2008 cell phone ownership among teens has climb from from 45% to 71% and in comparison adult cell phone ownership rose from 77% to 85%.

Another study that caught my attention being an internet user that often watch videos online was "The Audience for Online Video-Sharing Sites Shoots Up" While the last study in 2006 showed that 33% of adults watching video, in 2008 it rose to 62%. The study also shows that 19% of internet use is to watch videos.

Last study I wish to report on is "Wireless Internet Use" this statistic surprise me to some extent, 56% of adults access the internet wirelessly via laptops or game counsels or phones.

FCC looks to regulate Internet Service Providers

Internet providers might have to make it even for everybody. On the campaign trail, then candidate Obama made promise and on Monday the FCC will announce their plan that will not allow Internet Providers to charge more for more bandwidth. sometimes applications are slowed online that would allow customers to watch TV shows so that the viewer do not shut off the TV to hop on the internet.

I agree with the upcoming propose regulation. The internet should be an equal playing field for everyone, I feel the internet belong to the people and should not be based off the more money you have the better internet you can receive.

FCC rules to boost Internet neutrality

Daniel Lovering, Associated Press

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/20/MNGS19PLLQ.DTL#ixzz0RkzsBdKX

Though Asia has the larger population that are online, America has a higher percentage of the population online. Asia has a percentage of 18.5% and the USA 73.9 %.

WORLD INTERNET USAGE AND POPULATION STATISTICS
World Regions	Population ( 2009 Est.)	Internet Users Dec. 31, 2000	Internet Users Latest Data	Penetration (% Population)	Growth 2000-2009	Users % of Table
Africa	991,002,342	4,514,400	65,903,900	6.7 %	1,359.9 %	3.9 %
Asia	3,808,070,503	114,304,000	704,213,930	18.5 %	516.1 %	42.2 %
Europe	803,850,858	105,096,093	402,380,474	50.1 %	282.9 %	24.2 %
Middle East	202,687,005	3,284,800	47,964,146	23.7 %	1,360.2 %	2.9 %
North America	340,831,831	108,096,800	251,735,500	73.9 %	132.9 %	15.1 %
Latin America/Caribbean	586,662,468	18,068,919	175,834,439	30.0 %	873.1 %	10.5 %
Oceania / Australia	34,700,201	7,620,480	20,838,019	60.1 %	173.4 %	1.2 %
WORLD TOTAL	6,767,805,208	360,985,492	1,668,870,408	24.7 %	362.3 %	100.0 %
NOTES: (1) Internet Usage and World Population Statistics are for June 30, 2009. (2) CLICK on each world region name for detailed regional usage information. (3) Demographic (Population) numbers are based on data from the US Census Bureau . (4) Internet usage information comes from data published by Nielsen Online, by the International Telecommunications Union, byGfK, local Regulators and other reliable sources. (5) For definitions, disclaimer, and navigation help, please refer to the Site Surfing Guide. (6) Information in this site may be cited, giving the due credit to www.internetworldstats.com. Copyright © 2001 - 2009, Miniwatts Marketing Group. All rights reserved worldwide.

Africa and The Middle East had the highest percentage growth of internet connection from 2000 to 2009 both about 1,360% in 9 years.

Nigeria has the most connected internet users in Africa with 11,000,000 people.

Latin American Internet Usage LATIN AMERICA COUNTRIES / REGIONS Population ( Est. 2009 ) Internet Users,Latest Data % Population ( Penetration ) User Growth ( 2000-2009 ) % Users in Table Argentina 40,913,584 20,000,000 48.9 % 700.0 % 11.6 % Bolivia 9,775,246 1,000,000 10.2 % 733.3 % 0.6 % Brazil 198,739,269 67,510,400 34.0 % 1,250.2 % 39.3 % Chile 16,601,707 8,368,719 50.4 % 376.2 % 4.9 % Colombia 43,677,372 18,234,822 41.7 % 1,976.9 % 10.6 % Costa Rica 4,253,877 1,500,000 35.3 % 500.0 % 0.9 % Cuba 11,451,652 1,450,000 12.7 % 2,316.7 % 0.8 % Dominican Republic 9,650,054 3,000,000 31.1 % 5,354.5 % 1.7 % Ecuador 14,573,101 1,634,828 11.2 % 808.2 % 1.0 % El Salvador 7,185,218 763,000 10.6 % 1,807.5 % 0.4 % Guatemala 13,276,517 1,320,000 9.9 % 1,930.8 % 0.8 % Honduras 7,833,696 658,500 8.4 % 1.546.3 % 0.4 % Mexico 111,211,789 27,400,000 24.6 % 910.2 % 15.9 % Nicaragua 5,891,199 155,000 2.6 % 210.0 % 0.1 % Panama 3,360,474 778,800 23.2 % 1,630.7 % 0.5 % Paraguay 6,995,655 530,300 7.6 % 2,551.5 % 0.3 % Peru 29,546,963 7,636,400 25.8 % 205.5 % 0.6 % Puerto Rico 3,966,213 1,000,000 25.2 % 400.0 % 0.6 % Uruguay 3,494,382 1,340,000 38.3 % 262.2 % 0.8 % Venezuela 26,814,843 7,552,570 28.2 % 695.0 % 4.4 % TOTAL 569,212,811 171,833,339 30.2 % 865.7 % 100.0 % NOTES: (1) Latin American Internet Usage and Population Statistics were updated for June 30, 2009. (2) CLICK on each country name to see detailed data for individual countries and regions. (3) Population numbers are based on data from theU.S. Census Bureau. (4) The most recent usage comes mainly from data published by Nielsen-Online , ITU , and trustworthy local sources. (5) Data on this site may be cited, giving the due credit and establishing an active link back toInternet World Stats . (6) For definitions and help, see the site surfing guide. Copyright © 2009, Miniwatts Marketing Group. All rights reserved.

In the Latin America Countries it seems that Brazil has the most connected users with 67,510,400 people.

The Dominican Republic had the most surge in user growth percentage wise with 5,354.5%.