Only 9 percent of internet users say they never visit YouTube.
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Kids Still Like Radio
Kids Still Like Radio — The most popular form of listening to music for those ages 13 through 35 remains old-fashioned AM/FM radio with 24 percent citing it as their primary means of doing so. Internet radio is second at 23 percent, followed by digital files — like those you’d find on an iPod — at 15 percent, on-demand services at 14 percent, CDs at just 9 percent and, satellite at 5 percent. Ten percent cited other.
Kids Still Like Radio
Moms Rule Internet Says EMarketer
Moms Rule Internet Says EMarketer — EMarketer.com reports that 94.5 percent of women with children living at home are internet users. That compares with 75.7 percent of Americans overall.
Moms Rule Internet Says EMarketer
Twitter Rules Muslim World
Twitter Rules Muslim World — In Saudi Arabia, 51 percent of internet users are active Twitter users, according to eMarketer.com. This is the highest percentage of Twitter users of any nation.
The Saudis are followed by Turkey with 39 percent of internet users being Twitter users and the United Arab Emirates with 34 percent of internet users being Twitter users.
The United States is not even in the top 10.
Twitter Rules Muslim World
216 Million Email Users In 2013
216 Million Email Users In 2013 — There are 216.6 million email users in the United States, which is 68.4 percent of the population.
What’s weird is that the nation has only 204. 1 million users of internet search engines.
Ecommerce Tops $1 Trillion For First Time
Ecommerce Tops $1 Trillion — Ecommerce topped $1 trillion for the first time in 2012 reports eMarketer.com.
Ecommerce Tops $1 Trillion For First Time
UN Web Resolution Is Little Reported
UN Web Resolution Is Little Reported — A draft of telecommunication regulations was passed, Dec. 11, at the International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU) World Conference held in Dubai.
The ITU is the United Nations specialized agency for information and communications technology.
Here is the draft DT/51-E rev1 as a pdf file.
Most of it seems pretty reasonable with things such as giving priority to distress communications, limiting the ability to tax international messaging to the customers in that country, requiring transparency in pricing and encouraging member states to take steps to prevent the propagation of spam bulk emails.
On the other hand, there are those concerned that it sets a precedent for UN expansion regarding internet governance.
We are inclined to share those concerns.
The resolution, by the way, was opposed by the United States but supported by Cuba, Algeria, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia reports WeeklyStandard.Com.
UN Web Resolution Is Little Reported
Bush Invented Internet, Gore Loses Again
The Wall Street Journal has a fascinating article as to who really built the internet in response to the claims the government than did it which are being presented by Obama supporters in a futile attempt to defend the President’s bizarre statement “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
So who did it? It was Bush. Just kidding sorta, Gordon Crovitz traces the internet to Vannevar Bush who initiated the Manhattan Project and founded Raytheon, who wrote an article in 1946 that appeared in The Atlantic that predicted the WorldWideWeb.
Of course, that’s not the invention.
The invention was by Xerox in the 1970s which developed ethernet to link different computer networks (IOW inter-net) which was unlike the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPA) that was just a single network.
Crovitz does note that it was Vincent Cerf who developed TCP/IP, the protocol that is the backbone of the internet — yes Cerf was working with the government when he did it — and Tim Berners-Lee who created Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that is the backbone of the WorldWideWeb while working at CERN a multinational government-funded organization.
Of course, Berners-Lee was famously using a very non-government-funded NeXT cube — the computer designed by Steve Jobs after he was forced from Apple — when he wrote HTTP.
Perhaps, Obama meant to say that if “the government does something, it is a business that makes it happen.”
Bush Invented Internet, Gore Loses Again
Kid Info From Web Photos
Kid Info From Web Photos — Cathy Craddock has submitted this link to a 2010 news report from NBC’s Kansas City affiliate explaining how geotags in smartphone photos can be gleaned from postings on Facebook and such to allow stalkers to get information about where to find their targets.
This link tells you how to disable the geotagging feature, which is a fairly simple process, on common smart phones.
Kid Info From Web Photos
Casey SOPA Late Response
Casey SOPA Late Response — Better a month late than never one supposes.
Sen. Bob Casey (D) finally got back to us on the request we made Jan. 18 that he oppose the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). Both bills were put on hold that day after massive protests.
He never really did do much to stop them.
Sen. Pat Toomey (R) responded almost immediately and announced his opposition to the bills later that day.
Anyway, here is Sen. Casey’s response:
Dear Mr. Lawrence:
Thank you for taking the time to contact me regarding S. 968, the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property (PROTECT IP) Act of 2011, and H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act. I appreciate hearing from you about this issue.
S. 968 was introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont on May 12, 2011. The PROTECT IP Act would allow the Attorney General and property rights holders to take legal action against only foreign-based websites strictly dedicated to copyright infringement and intellectual property theft. After legal action is taken and a judge finds the particular foreign-based website guilty of being dedicated to intellectual property theft, payment processors such as credit card companies and other payment systems would no longer be allowed to process payments to that illegal foreign site. It would also allow the Attorney General and intellectual property holders to seek a court order to shut down websites engaging in piracy.
S. 968 was voted out of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary unanimously on May 26, 2011. A version of this bill, H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act, was introduced in the House of Representatives by Representative Lamar Smith of Texas on October 26, 2011. It was referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary, where hearings were held.
Over the past several months, I have heard from numerous groups and individuals concerned that internet piracy destroys American jobs, threatens public safety—for example, through the sales of counterfeit pharmaceuticals—and violates the intellectual property rights of creative and innovative American artists, inventors and entrepreneurs. These diverse groups strongly supported the bill as a means to shut down foreign rogue websites that are dedicated exclusively to intellectual property theft.
More recently, I have heard from individuals who are concerned that these bills violate their right to freedom of speech, as well as from constituents concerned that they would shut down sites like Google, Wikipedia, Facebook and YouTube. I take very seriously concerns about censorship and infringing freedom of speech. Accordingly, I was pleased that the bills were removed from the Senate calendar so that further consideration could be given to these concerns.
At this point, I think it is important for all interested parties—including Internet users, technology companies and intellectual property holders—to take a step back and begin a dialogue on how to protect the legitimate rights of innovators and creative artists, and protect public safety in the face of counterfeit products, while at the same time assuring that First Amendment rights are not infringed and the further development of robust internet is not inhibited. I also look forward to new legislation being developed that appropriately balances all of these objectives. Please be assured that as this process advances, I will have your views in mind.
Again, thank you for sharing your thoughts with me. Please do not hesitate to contact me in the future about this or any other matter of importance to you.
I encourage you to visit my website, casey.senate.gov. I invite you to use this online office as a comprehensive resource to stay up-to-date on my work in Washington, request assistance from my office, or share with me your thoughts on the issues that matter most to you and to Pennsylvania.
Sincerely,
Bob Casey
United States Senator
Casey SOPA Late Response