driving risks

1. About (26%) of American teens of driving age say they have texted while driving, and half (48%) of all teens ages 12 to 17 say they’ve been a passenger while a driver has texted behind the wheel.

2. Both female and males are equally likely to report texting behind the wheel as well as riding with texting drivers.

3. As teens get older, they are more likely to report riding with drivers who text.

4. Mary Madden,Senior Research Specialist and co-author of the report that cell phones are often seen as devices that can make our lives more efficient, allowing us to multi-task in our idle moments,and whether you’re a teenager or an adult, it’s tempting to think you can manage several different activities at once.”

5. These findings form Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project that looks at teens, mobile phones and distracted driving. The report is based on a telephone survey of 800 teens ages 12-17 and a parent or guardian as well as 9 focus groups with middle and high school students.

music partying like 1999

1. Music went music went digital the MP3 compression format shrunk those big music files into transportable size.

2In July 2000, nearly one in four adult internet users said they had downloaded music files, and most of them (54%) had used the Napster network to do. Record sales for the music industry continue to decline; the latest reports from Nielsen indicated that total album sales, including albums sold digitally, fell to 428.4 million units, down 14% from 500.5 million in 2007.

3. Digital album sales actually increased 32% during the same period—to a record 65.8 million units—they were still dwarfed by the 362.6 million physical units sold. Those who do continue to buy music still overwhelmingly choose CDs. According to our 2008 “Internet and Consumer Choice” report, just 13% of music buyers say their most recent music purchase was a digital download.

Alan Khazel

Alan Khazel is the son of a doctor and a nurse who went into medicine in care of people

and saves lives. He views health care reform as both a moral issures and

an econmic imperative. They said that too many families do not have health insurance.

Alan Khazel goals are to pass health insurance reform so that all Americans have access

to quality care; to ensure that patients' rights to quality health care are guaranteed.

I thought it was really good speech and he made great points. He said that 98% have

health care mass. He mention that small business will have the same rights

as the bigger business in health insurance. He also said that hundreds of thousands

more are losing coverage each month.

teens and online

1. About 60% of the 6^th graders in our sample reported using the Internet. By 7^th grade, this number jumps to 82% of teens who are online. By 11th and 12th grade the percentage of internet users climbs steadily before topping out at 94%.

2. Less than half (44%) of 6^th grade boys report going online, compared to 79% of 6^th grade girls.

3. Older teens, aged 15-17, go online more frequently than younger teens. Some 59% of wired teens aged 15-17 go online more then once a day. While 43% of younger teens report going online that frequently. By comparison, 11% of 12- to 14-year-olds say they go online every few weeks, compared to just 6% of older teens.

Internet use and email

Internet use and email

1. Between 18 and 44 years old the web continues to be populated largely by younger generations, as over half of the adult internet population.

2. Larger percentages of older generations are online now than in the past, and they are doing more activities online, according to the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project surveys taken from 2006-2008.

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3. The biggest increase in internet use since 2005 can be seen in the 70-75 year-old age group. While just over one-fourth (26%) of 70-75 year olds were online in 2005, 45% of that age group is currently online.

Global Warming

Some Americans who say there is solid evidence that global temperatures are rising and fewer also see global warming as a very serious problem. In lastest survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press in Sept. 30-Oct. 4 among 1,500 adults, 57% think there is solid evidence that the average temperature on earth has been getting warmer over the past few decades. Only 71% said there was solid evidence of rising global temperatures. Some Ameicans are saying that global temperatures are rising as a result of human activity, such as burning fossil fuels.

I think alot of people don't care about the ice melting up north and over time it will take over the world. Some say they don't want to spend alot of money to fix it up. I think we should spend money to save our earth.

Internet civil engagement

1. In 2008 a survey was found that 33% of internet users had a profile on a social net working site.

2. 37% of internet users aged 18-29 use blogs or social new working sites as a venue for political or civic involvement, compared to 17% of online 30-49 years old.

3. 17% of cell phone owners who are involved in a political or community group have communicated with the group via text messaging.

4. 67% of people who contacted a government official in person by phone or by letter a response on their query.

5. One- third of Americans (36%) are involved in a civic or political group and more than half of these (56%) use digital tools to communicate with other group members.

President Obama

(CNN) -- President Obama said Friday that he was "surprised and deeply humbled" by the decision of the Norwegian Nobel Committee to award him the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.

President Obama, speaking Friday, said the award was "an affirmation of American leadership."

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The committee said it honored Obama for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."

Obama said he viewed the decision less as a recognition of his own accomplishments and more as "a call to action."

The decision appeared to catch most observers by surprise. Nominations for the prize had to be postmarked by February 1, only 12 days after Obama took office. The committee sent out its solicitation for nominations last September, two months before Obama was elected president.

Obama had not been mentioned as among front-runners for the prize, and the roomful of reporters gasped when Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Nobel committee, announced that the president was the winner.

I have mix thoughts why Obama really accomplished to recieve this award because he is bring more troops to over seas. Once I think about it, it could be the the best thing for America and the rest of the world. He will do anything in his power to obligated to do everything in his power to promote what the prize stands for.

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Law.com (Legal) dealing with the law.

http://news.bbc.co.uk I like this site because it shows us news all around the world.

CNN Politics (cnn.com/POLITICS). They show us everything about politics.

5 things on the graph

1. I wasn't shocked to see that people who are 18-29 years old that are in college only 90% use the internet.

2. I was shocked to see that only 85% of people who are ages of 30- 49 use the internet. I thought it was going to be way less then college students .

3. All whites who use the internet there was only 75%.

4. People who are 18-29 years old there are only 86% own a cell phone.

5. High school students own a cell phone there are only 73%.

Degrees of Access (May 2008 data) ( 5 facts on the graph)

Degrees of Access (May 2008 data)

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Women and men use the imternet

1. Men are slightly more intense internet users than women.

2. Women are more likely then men to use email to write to friends are family about a variety of topics: sharing news and planning events.

3. Men use email more than women to communicate with various kinds of organization.

4. Women include a wider range of topics and activities in personal emails.

5. More online men than women perform online transactions.

6. Men log on more often spend more time online and are more likely to be broadband users.

There is no shocker that women came up more times then the men did. Women love to go online and chat with friends, gossip, and just looking up random stuff. Men are more into sports, listening to music, and checking emails.

Bonding or Bridging sites

Facebook is a bonding site because people together and talk to peers. We can also find people that we haven't talked to or seen in a long time. We can look at peoples pictures, play games, change our satus and do other crazy things to make our friends laugh. We can also send personal emails from our peers.

First class is other bonding site because we can email peers and teachers. Students can talk to each other in the student discussions that they can share ideas and ask questions for things that they are not sure of. We can send personal emails to each other to our teachers or peers.

Comcast is a bridging site because we only can send personal emails to our peers, and co-workers, and family members. We can look up the news and other things thats going on with the world.

Internet Neutrality

The FCC's making a new plans to propose new rules that would prohibit Internet service. This provides from interfering with the free flow of information and certain applications over their net works.

The proposals would up hold a pledge Barack Obama made durning the presidential campaign to support internet neutrality and would bar companies like Verizon, Comcast, or ATT&T, from slowing or blocking certain services or content flowing through their vast networks.

These new rules will limit them from keeping their network running smoothly. They think they will be unable to prevent large users from eating up bandwidth that will slow down service for others. According to Genachowski a more open internet will promote more investment revenue for the internet srevice providers to put into managing their network.

I think its too early to decide if this is going to work or not. I think they should not make us pay more money just for us using the internet to find information that we needed. I think they also speed up the processes of laoding up websites that seems like hours for a page to come up.

Five observations

Five observations by reviewing the web sit, World Internet Stats.com

1. I was shocked that North America has more internet users then South America, Central America and the Caribbean. North America has 251,735,500 and South America has 134,086,439. In Central America it was 32,607,00 and in the Caribbean it was 9,1740,700.

2. In Australia has more penetration population 60.1% of the rest of the world was 24.5%.

3. In Africa the use Growth (2000-2009) 1,359.9%. It was more then the rest of the world was 349.7%.

4. 704, 213, 930 people who live in Asia has more internet users than other world regions. In the world it was 964,656,478.

5. Latin America has 171,8333,339 internet users. The rest of the word was 1,497,037,069.