Funny, I was just about to write a little “welcome to the blogosphere” post to tell “AIMS” we’re happy to see them “blogging”, but now I’m not so sure. Turns out AIMS -stole- inadvertently posted (and has since taken down) — word for word — “this post” by Marc Poirier that ran earlier this week on One Degree.

Here’s Marc’s post:

According to PEW’s recent survey of Internet usage (links to PDF), search is now the second most popular Internet activity, edging towards email as the primary Internet application. Search usage jumped dramatically from 30% of American Internet users in June 2004 to 41% in September of 2005. By comparison, email is used by 52% of American Internet users, up from 45% in June 2004. Also of interest in this report is the recent rise in local searches, as well as some demographic data on search usage among various important population segments.

And here is theirs, attributed to Drew Fiala:

According to PEW’s recent survey of Internet usage, search is now the second most popular Internet activity, edging towards email as the primary Internet application. Search usage jumped dramatically from 30% of American Internet users in June 2004 to 41% in September of 2005. By comparison, email is used by 52% of American Internet users, up from 45% in June 2004. Also of interest in this report is the recent rise in local searches, as well as some demographic data on search usage among various important population segments.

I’ve sent off a note to AIMS to see what their policy is for posting on their blog — it may be that they need to pull in the reins a bit until everyone gets comfortable with blogging etiquette over there.

Update: As noted above, AIMS took down the post as soon as we let them know about the problem. Thanks for the quick turnaround Dave!

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Originally published at www.onedegree.ca on November 24, 2005.