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Young folks love the Internet

From Jon Stahl's blog... A recent study conducted for Yahoo showed that young people aged 13-24 spend more time using the Internet than watching TV.

"On average, young people said they spent nearly 17 hours online each week, not including time used to read and send electronic mail, compared with almost 14 hours spent watching television and 12 hours listening to the radio, the study said.

A majority of youth polled said they are also likely to be engaging in other activities while using the Internet, such as listening to radio or talking on the telephone. Many said they were most likely to look on the Internet for information on movie and music reviews or celebrity news."

Out to get yah!

Check out this site that lists all sorts of activist groups and their profiles, funding, etc. It really has a distorted view of what groups are trying to do. Yet again another propaganda campaign, this one just happens to be funded by Center for Consumer Freedom (supported by Monsanto).

How to fish

And you thought bikinis didn't have multiple uses . . .

Declaration of Digital Democracy

Just read an interesting article about the 10 citizen rights in a Digital Democracy at the Center for Digital Democracy site.

Bush - "Don't call me!"

Monkey man Bush has again made another move to alienate the American public. In a NY Times Article the new White House policy makes users fill out a long winded web form that first asks you if you agree or disagree with his policies. They also make you give your contact info and email to confirm your submission. Can you say "Big Brother" is now watching. What's going to happen to folks who say they disagree? How do you like your country now?

The city of sin

Off to Vegas today for my cousin's wedding. Can't even begin to describe how much I am NOT looking forward to going to this bastard city in the desert. The water, power and utter consumption in an arid, desolate desert breaks all sense of connection to the earth. Arghhhh... I am most disappointed that a family member has decided to get married here. He even lives in Seattle, so I would have expected some sort of social conciousness. I'm bringing lots of reading and my laptop to get some work done for TNC so I can feel better about the trip.

Weblog review

Macworld has a great review of Weblog software worth reading. Movabletype and Pmachine get thumbs up.

Tell stories through blogs

Wired News: Bloggers Opening Western Eyes is a great story describing how blogs can be used by nonprofit organizations to share the on the ground work that is being done all over the world. This story focuses on interns from The Advocacy Project circuit-riding in Bosnia, Nepal, Lebanon, Israel, Kosovo, Italy, Nigeria and the Czech Republic.

Misleader.org

Want to keep track of what Bush is up to and how he has mislead the American public into war? Check out Moveon.org's new site misleader.org and get all the latest news. Plus watch the new TV ad spot.

Last Regatta

Had our last regular season regatta today out at Keehi lagoon. Men's B got 1st, Women B's got second and the mix boat got third. Hitting the cycle. It was a bit disappointing that our mix boat didn't do better. We had a great week of practice, but things just didn't come together today. We better get it together for the Oahu championships then on to state. The men kicked ass and will probably qualify for state after today's victory.