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Saturday, February 2, 2008

Sharing, Privacy, and Trust in a Networked World

Fascinating and detailed (280 pages) report from OCLC (Online Computer Library Center). It provides information about Internet use in six countries; it is an update to a report from 2005, so it is able to show trends.

Here are the usage rates in the online population from 2005 to 2007 for various technologies:

search engines: 71% to 90%
email: 73% to 97%
blogs: 16% to 46%

Unfortunately, there's another statistic. Visits to library Web sites dropped from 30% of the online population in 2005 to 20%.

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