That's just a reflection of a change in the online population. The typical user is no longer a young, white man, highly educated with lots of money. The Internet population is now more like America.

It is also a reflection of demand. In a county that isn't particularly wired up, there might not be much demand for a county Web site.

E-mail is a tool that many people now use to deepen and improve their ties to family and friends. Use of the Internet actually enlarges and enriches most users' social worlds. And that is particularly true for women.

The Pew actually allows respondents to decide themselves. I would say absolutely we're dealing with a term that is not particularly well-defined because blogging is a platform. Blogs can be so many different things to so many different people. The definition needs to be more about structure than content.

This is a pretty interesting and new passion for teens. Anybody who has thoughts or interesting things to say or a beef with the world can use this incredibly powerful publishing tool.

For a lot of people now, especially those with broadband connections, the first place they go to for information is online. But people are still warming up to the idea that lots of information about them is online.