College football recruiting is followed obsessively by lots of folks and the recruits a school pulls in each year often make or break a coach. Entire businesses, like Rivals.com and Scout.com, have been built around keeping track of the decisions made by 17 year old kids around the country. And coaches that can connect with kids during the recruiting process are just as valuable as coaches who,...
Continue ReadingA new study published jointly by Duke University and the University of Arizona found that Americans have fewer close friends today than they did twenty years ago. The average number of people who are considered close confidants dropped by nearly one-third, from 2.94 in 1985 to 2.08 in 2004.
The study speculates that the drop may be a result of increased work hours and/or the use of the Internet for socializing....
Continue ReadingDr. Nora Ganim Barnes, a Professor of Marketing at the University of Massachusettes, recently published an excellent study on the habits of 74 business bloggers. Here are some stats from the survey:
Our study on Internet usage by 2006 U.S. Senate campaigns got a nice write up on the excellent PBS MediaShift blog today. The article focuses on the use of tools like blogs and podcasts by the campaigns. It’s a good read.
For those of you interested, here’s a listing of our series of posts the last few months on this topic:
A couple of days ago the Financial Times reported that MySpace was planning to go global, launching non-English localized versions of MySpace in 11 countries sometime this summer. Countries named at being potential targets included the United Kingdom, France, Germany, China and India. MySpace currently has around 75 million registered users (it increases by the second)....
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