Among 34-to-45-year-olds who use the Internet, the percentage who blog increased six points, to 16 percent, in 2010 from two years earlier, the Pew survey found.
Internet penetration the percentage of people using the Internet worldwide has been steadily rising, and reached 41.8percentt of the global population, or around 2.9 billion people, last year.
PhoCusWright found that among travelers with access to the Internet, the percentage who usually book travel online dropped to 62percentt at the end of last year from 68percentt in 2005, while those who say they usually arrange travel offline increased to 31percentt from 25percentt during the same period.
Four of the cities with the five highest Internet penetration (percentage of people with Internet access) are on the Pacific coast, according to Internet audience researcher Nielsen//NetRatings ntrt, which measures at-home and work usage of the Net.
This reduces distortions caused by differences in a country's percentage of global internet use and the percentage of its users captured by the websites Net Applications monitors.
Advertisers, at least, seem to be switching: the most recent figures suggest that Google increased its market share of internet advertising by 4.4 percentage points during 2008, compared with Baidu's 2.9 percentage points.
The conundrum is that although the Delta's residents cannot compete in business, education, government and health care without the internet, a high percentage of zip-codes in the region have no internet access.
Denmark has 37percentt of homes and businesses fitted with high-speed Internet, the highest percentage in the world, followed by the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland and Luxembourg, according to figures released on Tuesday by the European Commission.
The rule, which is to be phased in starting next April, requires brokers to post quarterly reports on the Internet about the percentage of orders they route to various places for execution.
Although most Americans have access to the Internet, a large percentage of them may be suffering from a lack of digital readiness.
