Susannah Fox

A recent article about hip librarians (and a visit from Gary Price) sent me back to ResourceShelf.com.

MP3s, dishwashers, can openers, and Twitter are examples of "good enough" technologies.

From blogs on world health care to public radio's The World, there were many interpretations of last week's report on China's internet population.

The Federal Trade Commission's Spam Summit was an occasion to celebrate the (limited) success of the CAN-SPAM Act and to discuss the latest criminal threats online.

If today's essay on China piques your interest, check out some other dispatches from Deborah Fallows.

The typical citizen response to discovering that their computer is part of a botnet: "I thought it was running slow recently."

Older adults are less likely than younger adults to go online, but there are exceptions -- those who "feel" and "do" younger than their chronological age.

Older adults are still the least likely group to have basic internet access and broadband access at home. However, information specialists can design outreach plans that are targeted at certain groups dominated by people age 50+.

In 1998, 57% of non-internet users said they worry "not at all" about missing out on something by not going online.

12% of internet users participate in an online patient group.