“[In his foreword, Rainie praises the work that led to this book.] Of all the things we have done, nothing has taught us as much and made us think as expansively as this effort, ... We are very grateful to Janna Quitney Anderson, her Elon University colleagues, and their students for their dogged, shoe-leather work in tracking these predictions down—and for the synthesis and analysis Anderson shares in this book.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
