News on the Digital Divide

From the press release reporting on a University of Minnesota study of Internet use among high school students:

First-of-its-kind study at the University of Minnesota uncovers the educational benefits of social networking sites

Study also finds that low-income students, contrary to recent studies, are in many ways just as technologically savvy as their counterparts

(But a brief Baltimore Sun article on broadband subscription is less optimistic.)

Narcissistic Text Analysis

Here’s a word-frequency cloud of my dissertation courtesy of Wordle.net.

Tools of the Trade

Love, love, loooove Chicago's Threadless Tee's. Like this one in particular:


http://www.threadless.com/product/805/Tools_Of_The_Trade