Research and Documentation Online: How to properly cite your sources when writing papers

ryeisenberg:

My high school english teacher gave me a link to this site during my senior year of high school (which was six years ago and now I feel really old) but I just dug it up again to help my sister with a paper and it’s so fucking useful that I thought I’d share it with all of you.

If you ever have any questions about how to properly format citations in-text or in your bibliography according to MLA/APA standards, check this site. It has all the answers you could ever need. 

Are You A Blogger? Then You Are Probably An Old Fart

  • Teenagers and young adults spent less time blogging during the past three years…
  • Twitter, has failed to catch on with the vast majority of younger teenagers…
  • blogging has become so 2006, when 28 percent of the two groups studied, teens 12 to 17 and young adults 18 to 29, actively blogged…
  • By the fall of 2009, that percentage dropped off to only 14 percent of teens and 15 percent of young adults as blogging “lost its luster for many young users,”…
  • About 52 percent of those surveyed had memberships in more than one social network, up from 42 percent in 2008….
  • only 40 percent of adults age 30 and older used social media sites in 2009…

facebook is winning out according to this study.

much more from the Pew Research Center here.

High-res Sizing up where men look When men gaze at a picture of, say, former baseball player George Brett, they aren’t just checking out his batting stance. They’re also sneaking quick glances at Brett’s crotch, according to eye-tracking researchers. In a Web site design study, researchers at the Nielsen/Norman Group showed 255 men and women pictures of different people, including Brett and ballet dancers. Technology called “heat maps” helped reveal that men fixate on private parts-breasts and genitalia-more than women. But faces also draw a lot of looks too, said Kara Pernice Coyne, director of research for NN Group, which conducts behavioral research to make Web sites easier to use. “Women still do [look at private parts], but it’s definitely more men,” said Coyne. continue reading… chicagotribune hat tip to ppg for this 2007 link

Sizing up where men look

When men gaze at a picture of, say, former baseball player George Brett, they aren’t just checking out his batting stance. They’re also sneaking quick glances at Brett’s crotch, according to eye-tracking researchers.

In a Web site design study, researchers at the Nielsen/Norman Group showed 255 men and women pictures of different people, including Brett and ballet dancers. Technology called “heat maps” helped reveal that men fixate on private parts-breasts and genitalia-more than women.

But faces also draw a lot of looks too, said Kara Pernice Coyne, director of research for NN Group, which conducts behavioral research to make Web sites easier to use. “Women still do [look at private parts], but it’s definitely more men,” said Coyne.

continue reading… chicagotribune

hat tip to ppg for this 2007 link