73%!!

Fully 73% of texting teens ages 16-17 have been in a car when the driver was texting.

texting while driving

driving and texting among teens

Overall, 34% of teen texters ages 16-17 say they have texted while driving. That translates into 26% of all American teens ages 16-17.

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cells and texting

75% of all American teens ages 12-17 own a cell phone, and 66% use their phones to send or receive text messages.

limiting the damage of free downloading

Through digital fingerprinting and other tracking technologies, the record labels are monitoring copyrighted content as closely as ever and are counting on two major new strategies to help them: First, is a landmark partnership with internet service providers to monitor file sharing activity and potentially cut off service to the worst offenders. Second, is a series of partnerships with universities that would incorporate music subscription fees (predicted to be less than five dollars per student) into student tuition bills.26 If successful, a similar ISP-based fee could be implemented for the general public

internet downloading could have been profit for the music industry

The industry missed an opportunity to turn informal file-sharing into a profit center when it failed to buy Napster, the first of the popular downloading services, when it had a chance in 2000.

reason the internet demand grew

Internet scholar Lawrence Lessig has even gone so far as to argue that music was the most important catalyst to early adoption of the internet. As he notes in Free Culture, “The appeal of file-sharing music was the crack cocaine of the Internet’s growth. It drove demand for access to the Internet more powerfully than anything else

Number of PC's with one or more P2P applications installed

decline in U.S album sales overtime

my thoughts on khazei

Alan Khazei impressed me with his dedication and passion about his new healthcare plan. his oratory skills were good too as well as the sound of the plan. however, one question he failed to answer is, what about his plan will convince those of opposing beliefs that this is the right thing to do?

what Alan khazei brings to the table

Alan Khazei, the nonprofit leader who is hoping to succeed Edward M. Kennedy as a Democratic senator from Massachusetts, is highlighting his national-service work in two new advertisements.

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Alan Khazei

is there a strong correlation between race, education and being online??

though, to some degree, there is a correlation between income, education and those whom are online. but overall statistics are staring to show that people are linked to the web regardless of race, class or ethnicity.

11th and 12th grade

94% of 11th and 12th graders are online.

demographics online

while 89% of hispanic teens are online and 87% of white teens are online, only 77% of african american teens are online.

percentage of teens online by grade