Yes the report "Leap of faith: using the Internet despite the dangers" as argued by me in my earlier post on it - [Last Month - LIS-FORUM - http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/2005-October/002963.html ] talks about more and more people using Internet despite some distrust. However, now I am arguing that INTERNET is must for LIS Professionals because some Recorded Knowledge now exists as "Online Only". How can this portion of knowledge be ignored? Uses of Internet is a different story. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:01:15 +0530 (IST) From: pku@nic.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: Why INTERNET To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <50427.192.168.1.1.1132216275.squirrel@mail2021> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

It's pleasure to read the write up posted by Mr Sukhdev Singh on "Why Internet'. It's useful. I got a survey report from Internet which may be useful in thus context.

Leap of faith: using the Internet despite the dangers

Results of a national survey of Internet users for Consumer Reports WebWatch

http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/ Among the latest findings from the Consumer Reports Web Watch poll:

* Nine out of 10 U.S. Internet users over 18 have made changes to their behavior due to fear of identity theft. * The percentage of adults saying they get most of their news from the Internet has doubled, going from 5 percent in 2002 to 11 percent in the most recent survey. * Blogs have won some readers but not much trust. A total of 57 percent distrust what blogs report, with 21 percent saying blogs are never or almost never accurate. * The majority of respondents (56 percent) has still not heard of the common practice of search engines being paid fees to list some sites more prominently than others in search results.

View abstract <http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/dynamic/web-credibility-reports-princet on.cfm> View report http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/pdfs/princeton.pdf

P K Upadhyay NIC Library