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WordPress is reigning champ for blogging platforms
Not a lot of people know that CNN Political Ticker, Mashable, TechCrunch, Boing Boing, ArtsBeat, Grist, Hollywood Life, and dozens more blogs use WordPress’ Web publishing platform. Not to mention several blogs for The New York Times that also use it, including The Opinionator, Paul Krugman, and Economix.
In fact, 49 percent of the top 100 blogs in the world use WordPress, according to a new survey by Pingdom. In distant second place are custom blogs with 14 percent.
“The last few years we’ve really focused on both the usability and flexibility of WordPress, which has resulted in accelerating… Continue reading
Web-based program may help cancer fatigue
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Cancer survivors who are still battling fatigue may find help from online counseling, a new clinical trial suggests.
It’s known that cancer patients commonly have fatigue, and it can linger for years after treatment.
Studies suggest that exercise can help, as can keeping a healthy sleep schedule, if possible. There’s also evidence that “talk therapy” helps some people.
But in-person counseling is time-consuming, expensive and not always available depending on where you live. So for the new study, Korean researchers tested a Web-based education program among 273 people who’d been treated for cancer within… Continue reading
Internet: Russia's new anti-Putin weapon
Russia‘s new Internet-savvy opposition is going online to protest and monitor the presidential elections on March 4, bringing its iPhones and Twitter into the fray against Vladimir Putin.
As jokes and spoof videos about Putin, expected to win back the presidency in Sunday’s polls, spread like wildfire on social networking sites and YouTube, opposition activists are using the Internet to promote their cause.
After a slow start, Internet use has sky-rocketed in Russia in recent years and last year the country overtook Germany as having Europe’s largest number of Internet users, a development the opposition have not hesitated… Continue reading
Mobile Internet to Drive Renren and Baidu Going Forward
NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwire -02/24/12)- After a strong start to 2012, Chinese internet stocks have lagged the market of late as disappointing quarterly earnings results have soured investor optimism on the sector. Despite being up more than 2 percent over the last month, TickerSpy’s Chinese Internet Stocks index (CHDOT) lags the S&P 500 by roughly 1.3 percent. The Paragon Report examines investing opportunities in China‘s Internet Sector and provides equity research on Renren, Inc. (NYSE: RENN – News) and Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU – News). Access to the full company reports can be found at:
www.paragonreport.com/RENN
www.paragonreport.com/BIDU
While higher costs… Continue reading
Internet use in Africa passes 139 mln mark
The number of internet users in Africa passed 139 million by 31 December 2011, up 112 percent on the same date in 2009, Arabian Business.com reported citing research from Internet World Stats. By the end of 2011, some 13.5 percent of the continent’s population was using the internet, compared with a global average of about 36 percent. Africa, which has a population of over 1.037 billion people, increased its share of the world’s internet users to 6.2 percent. According to the report, Nigeria, Egypt and Morocco topped the poll in terms of internet users, with 45 million, 21.7 million… Continue reading
Health Care Payers Push Back Against Costs
Uwe E. Reinhardt is an economics professor at Princeton. He has some financial interests in the health care field.
In a paper, “Divide et Impera: Safeguarding the Growth of Wellness Care Incomes (Expenses),” published this month in the British journal Well being Economics, I summarize themes touched on here and there in many earlier posts on this web site.
Study: Half of UK kids feel 'sad' without Internet, while many feel 'lonely'
The degree of emotional dependency on the Web among Britain’s youth has been revealed by the final results of a new examine carried out by analysis firm Intersperience.
The benefits display that people beneath 12 a long time of age have a sturdy emotional connection with the net, with half claiming they would be “sad” with out internet entry, whilst teens scored even greater, with 60 % saying they’d also really feel “sad”.
The Digital Futures project questioned 1,000 youngsters amongst eight and 18 years of age in an try to greater understand how on the internet and digital technological… Continue reading
