Resources in Overcoming Pornography Addictions
As a bishop, I have worked with many individuals who have struggled for years to find a way out of their pornography addictions. In spite of strong desires to overcome it, and good amounts of prayer and scripture reading, many of them struggle to overcome their habits...Nationwide Affordable, Fast Internet
Today, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission began work on a national broadband plan with the goal of ensuring that all consumers have access to services that are fast and affordable. The plan is due to Congress by Feb. 17, 2010, and could have a profound impact,...
Mobile Only
How many households are abandoning land-line telephones and going mobile-only? According to the National Center for Health Statistics, nearly 15% of all US households were wireless-only in 2007. 25% of the households in Utah were mobile-only in 2007 (second highest...3/4 of World’s Messages Sent by Mobile
TNS Global reports that 74% of the world’s digital messages were sent through a mobile device in January 2009, up from 59% a year ago. In emerging countries, 9 out of 10 messages are sent by a mobile device. Although PC e-mail is still the most popular message method ...
Facebook is Huge
Every day, the social networking giant Facebook is becoming a larger part of the overall Internet experience. More than 175 million people have joined since its founding in 2005, and its users contribute millions of pieces of content every day. Every day in February...Publishing Trends in the USA
Take-aways from the Publishing Business Conference and Expo I just attended in New York City: Editorial Literary reading is growing, not shrinking. Publishers are moving from publishing for general markets to focusing on more targeted markets. E-books are growing, but...
SEO Makes Front Page of Los Angeles Times
Recently, Danny Sullivan posted a story that SEO Makes Front Page of Los Angeles Times. This particular story caught my eye since Larry previously blogged about The Shrinking World of Newspapers. As evidence of this trend, the Times story It’s Web 101 for this...
Conference on Pornography
Utah Coalition Against Pornography 8th Annual Conference on Protecting Children and Families from Pornography and Other Harmful Material Saturday, April 25, 2009 8:00am – 1:00pm South Towne Expo Center – Sandy, Utah This conference has become recognized...
Has the Internet Made You More Productive?
According to a survey by the Center for the Digital Future at USC, a majority of US users say the Internet has made them more productive, and that number is increasing every year. In the year 2000, 57% said the Internet had improved their productivity “a lot” or...
Top Sites for Women: Online Communities
In February 2008, it was reported that comScore ranked Women’s Communities as the fastest growing category of sites on the Internet, growing 35% from Dec 06 to Dec 07. Below is a list of the top Web sites, at that time, in that category: comScore MediaMetrix...
Optimize Links
Today I noticed that the article 5 Ways to Optimize Your Existing Links for Maximum Benefit got Sphunn. As alluded to in the post Google Quickly Defuses Obama Google Bomb, “links are an important signal in [Google’s] PageRank calculations, as they tend to indicate...
Current Use of Social Networks
Who’s using Facebook? Inside Facebook, an independent blog that reports on the Facebook platform, found that the faces on Facebook are looking older these days. 45% of the social network’s US users are ages 26+ and nearly 25% are over 34. In fact, women 55+ are...
Internet is Mainstream Medium
eMarketer estimates that nearly 65% of Americans use the Internet today, and within 4 years it will be nearly 70% of the population. Slightly more females go online than males, but males spend more time once they go online.Getting Started on Facebook
Below is an easy-to-understand video on how to use Facebook. It’s a simple tutorial to help grandparents (or anyone else) create a profile on Facebook, and upload a profile picture.Follow on social media