Via Techdirt. comes this article The Disunited States of the Internet, talking about the new Pew study that shows that regions of the U.S. use the Internet differently. Wisconsin is included in the Upper Midwest area, where the usage is the same as the national average of 59%. “In the Upper Midwest (Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin), women were slightly more likely and men slightly less likely to be online than the national averages. Fewer users there logged on “just for fun” than elsewhere.”
I think this all helps to explain why our Internet terminals at the library just continue to get busier and busier. Our classes for beginners, on the other hand, are not needed as much anymore.

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Via Techdirt, comes a really wonderful new email service! Mailinator is an instant email account that doesn’t require registration ahead of time, has no password and expires after a few hours. Sound useless? Not at all! This means that at those sites that are asking for your email address in order to get their content, you can provide a Mailinator disposable address.
Here at the library, we often have patrons who want access to sites that require registration with a valid email but they don’t have an email. I plan to use Mailinator with them now. What a great solution!