Mike King

The Wizard Academy

Here is a link to The Wizard Academy a web site my son Daniel recommended to me.  There is some really great content on this site.

Nice

Check this out.  Got it from Dave Zimmerman's Blog at InterVarsity Press.

New data on teens and technology

"The Pew Internet & American Life Project has just released new research on teens and technology. Not surprisingly they find that teens are leading the transition to a fully wired and mobile lifestyle in America. What is surprising is the rapid acceptance of technology across all teen demographics."

Some findings by Pew research:

87% of teens use the internet.

Even in households with under $30,000 annual income, 73% of teens use the internet.

In households earning over $75,000 a year, 93% of teens are online.

51% of teens say the go online every day.

51% of online teens live in a home with high-speed access.

81% of teen internet users play games online.

76% get news online.

84% of all teenagers own at least one of the following: computer, cell phone, PDA.

83% of all teenagers surveyed reported that "most" of the people they know use the internet.

75% of online teens use instant messenger.

32% of ALL teens use instant messenger EVERY day.

Teens in focus groups reported that they viewed email as something you use to talk to "old people" (parents, teachers), while instant messenger was the preferred medium for casual conversation with friends.

The complete report entitled "Teens and Technology", dated July 27, 2005 is available at no cost from Pew Internet.

Bloglines

For you who are new to Blogging or reading Blogs I recommend Bloglines.  Bloglines is a free service.  Bloglines is web based, you don’t need to download any software to your computer. Just create an account on their website and subscribe to your favourite blogs.  You add the blogs you like to read by hitting the add link and pasting in the URL of the blog you are trying to add.  Then hit subscribe.  It is simple and enables you to quickly read through the blogs you are interested in.  When you open up bloglines, the blogs you add to your roster will appear in the left hand column.  The ones which have new posts will be in bold.  You just click on the blogs in bold and the post will appear in the right hand column without all the graphics.  If the post interests you you just click on it and it takes you to the blog in another window.  Close that blog and move on to the next.  You can read a lot of blogs a lot quicker.  Here is the link Bloglines.

10,000

I just hit my four month anniversary of blogging and also passed the 10,000 hit plateau.  I guess that's cool.