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3 months ago
in Help Loic Le Meur (Seesmic) and John Furrier (Silicon Angle) find new hosting on Scobleizer
When I saw your tweet about this, I came over to suggest Rackspace... so if you're not going to do it, I'll do it for you!
9 months ago
in 2008/09/29/conjunctured/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
Great to see recognition for the hard-working, hard-thinking Conjunctured crew.
I'll claim photo credit here for that second photo, the one with all four Conjuncturistos, which I shot after their talk at last April's Bootstrap Web at Cafe Caffeine in Austin. http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/wiki/index.php/W...
I'll claim photo credit here for that second photo, the one with all four Conjuncturistos, which I shot after their talk at last April's Bootstrap Web at Cafe Caffeine in Austin. http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/wiki/index.php/W...
1 year ago
in Leadership Austin - AH! Baby Boomers on john erik metcalf
One of my colleagues, Susannah Fox, is with the Pew Internet and American Life project. She wrote a report in 2005 that's relevant:
http://www.pewinternet.org/ppt/Fox_Aging_2005.pdf
Most recent Pew demographics are here:
http://www.pewinternet.org/trends/User_Demo_2.1...
Those are high-level numbers, but the show 72% adoption in the 50-64 age group - boomers - and 37% adoption of 65 - those born before the baby boom. Pretty high rate of adoption by boomers.
If you look at the figures for income, you have 61% adoption at the lowest level and it scales up from there. The digital divide is still there, and it's a complex issue to address. I spent a lot of time working with community networks, and there's all kinds of issues that keep people offline. Some of them just don't want to go there... but they'll do it if they have a compelling reason. Otherwise, why should they? So one important question to consider is whether people don't have access actually want it.
People with more income have more access, but I think you have to be nuanced in the assumptions you make about those figures.
The next Bootstrap Web isn't programmed yet. Maybe we should make it a discussion of digital divide and adoption.
http://www.pewinternet.org/ppt/Fox_Aging_2005.pdf
Most recent Pew demographics are here:
http://www.pewinternet.org/trends/User_Demo_2.1...
Those are high-level numbers, but the show 72% adoption in the 50-64 age group - boomers - and 37% adoption of 65 - those born before the baby boom. Pretty high rate of adoption by boomers.
If you look at the figures for income, you have 61% adoption at the lowest level and it scales up from there. The digital divide is still there, and it's a complex issue to address. I spent a lot of time working with community networks, and there's all kinds of issues that keep people offline. Some of them just don't want to go there... but they'll do it if they have a compelling reason. Otherwise, why should they? So one important question to consider is whether people don't have access actually want it.
People with more income have more access, but I think you have to be nuanced in the assumptions you make about those figures.
The next Bootstrap Web isn't programmed yet. Maybe we should make it a discussion of digital divide and adoption.
1 year ago
in Leadership Austin - AH! Baby Boomers on john erik metcalf
Comments on your comments (speaking as a boomer as well as a social web guy)...
Of course, you can't really guess at a time line for the major life-events, but you can figure out what the events are, and you can create a context for sort of journaling how you might respond. OTOH nothing could have prepared me for some of the changes in my life, especially the death of parents and the 2000 Internet crash (which slammed my life pretty hard). But I could have done a much better job of preparing, especially financially. If you want to talk more about this, you know where to find me.
You seem to assume that boomers aren't connecting online, and I'm not sure that's a valid assumption. They're connecting like crazy... and they're not necessarily going to want to hang out with other boomers as a matter of course. Maybe it's better to forget age, forget retirement, and if anything create usable resources for people of any age who want to learn more about the Internet.
Might be something the Pew Internet and American Life project has tackled or will tackle. I have a friend there, I'll check.
Of course, you can't really guess at a time line for the major life-events, but you can figure out what the events are, and you can create a context for sort of journaling how you might respond. OTOH nothing could have prepared me for some of the changes in my life, especially the death of parents and the 2000 Internet crash (which slammed my life pretty hard). But I could have done a much better job of preparing, especially financially. If you want to talk more about this, you know where to find me.
You seem to assume that boomers aren't connecting online, and I'm not sure that's a valid assumption. They're connecting like crazy... and they're not necessarily going to want to hang out with other boomers as a matter of course. Maybe it's better to forget age, forget retirement, and if anything create usable resources for people of any age who want to learn more about the Internet.
Might be something the Pew Internet and American Life project has tackled or will tackle. I have a friend there, I'll check.
