Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Pew Research Report on Wikipedia]

2011-01-14 Thread MZMcBride
David Gerard wrote: > Good question. Mind you, my mother got broadband specifically to make > video phone calls with Skype to her grandchildren ... grandmothers are > the userbase for video phones. And for Facebook, apparently: http://www.insidefacebook.com/?p=5774 Women and the elderly are two d

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Pew Research Report on Wikipedia]

2011-01-14 Thread David Gerard
On 14 January 2011 12:11, Thomas Dalton wrote: > There is a correlation between broadband and age, as well, I believe. > The elderly (when they have an internet connection at all) are more > likely to use dialup than the general population (I think - I haven't > looked at the numbers recently). I

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Pew Research Report on Wikipedia]

2011-01-14 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 13 January 2011 21:19, Pharos wrote: > There's a high correlation between broadband and income levels that > probably has more to do with it. There is a correlation between broadband and age, as well, I believe. The elderly (when they have an internet connection at all) are more likely to use

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Pew Research Report on Wikipedia]

2011-01-14 Thread Thomas Dalton
2011/1/14 KIZU Naoko : > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Pharos wrote: >> There's a high correlation between broadband and income levels that >> probably has more to do with it. > > Not worldwide I assume, broadband availability seems to depend on > geographic conditions. > > In some areas broadb

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Pew Research Report on Wikipedia]

2011-01-14 Thread KIZU Naoko
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Pharos wrote: > There's a high correlation between broadband and income levels that > probably has more to do with it. Not worldwide I assume, broadband availability seems to depend on geographic conditions. In some areas broadband isn't available at all, like in

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Pew Research Report on Wikipedia]

2011-01-13 Thread John Vandenberg
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Pharos wrote: > There's a high correlation between broadband and income levels that > probably has more to do with it. In Australia, there is a high correlation between broadband use and broadband availability ;-) My mum can only get dialup, and ~21 kpbs is a goo

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Pew Research Report on Wikipedia]

2011-01-13 Thread Fred Bauder
Always a wonderful question, whether a difference is caused by one thing or another. I just remember when I first came on the internet running CP/M with a 300-bit/s modem. Lynx was my friend. Poor people have poor ways and that is the issue, the vast majority of our potential audience, thinking on

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Pew Research Report on Wikipedia]

2011-01-13 Thread Pharos
There's a high correlation between broadband and income levels that probably has more to do with it. Thanks, Pharos On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Fred Bauder wrote: > "Broadband use remains another predictor, as 59% of those with home > broadband use the service, compared with 26% of those wh

[Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Pew Research Report on Wikipedia]

2011-01-13 Thread Fred Bauder
"Broadband use remains another predictor, as 59% of those with home broadband use the service, compared with 26% of those who connect to the internet through dial-up." Many images... Although a sophisticated user can turn them off or use lynx. Fred User:Fred Bauder --- O