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GNC-2010-11-08 #625 Back in the Saddle

Feels good to be back in the full swing of the show. I am having a great trip here in Albuquerque and really enjoying myself, will be doing an Ohana meet up this coming Friday. If you want to come out to dinner and your in the local area drop me an email so I can pass location and time.

Stanford Internet Study Details Most Common Online Activities

A report of Internet-related activities, published by Stanford University in 2000, asked 4,000 respondents to select among a list of 17 online activities. The results were not surprising. An updated report is forthcoming next week. By far, e-mail is the most common online activity, an activity of 90 percent of all users; however, e-mail isn't the principal reason most folk

Most Americans Aren’t Tech Hip

Americans seem to be in love with their high-tech gadget. Cell phones with customized ring tones, personal digital assistants with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless networking, high-speed broadband Internet connections, and software applications that provide greater processing power and accuracy than our parents ever dreamed about are available to us 24 hours a day, 365.242199 days a year.

Must Everything Be Free on the Internet?

Must everything eventually be available for free on the Internet? Steve Lohr argues that all public digital data will eventually be free on the Internet, because it's too difficult to protect the intellectual property (IP) rights of the authors. However, making all creative work freely available disregards our resonsiblity to raise a well-intentioned and civil next generation.