Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33237202/ns/politics-white_house?GT1=43001 - article

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/33238168#33238168 - video

Obama wasn't the only one surprised by him being honored with the Nobel Peace Prize. Obama said in msnbc article, "I am both surprised and deeply humbled." The thing that shocks me about this is he is only the third president to be awarded the prize and it is so early in his term of service. I do understand their efforts to push Obama's new policies.... Hopefully it works.

News Sites from politicsone.com

3 Sites I looked over on http://www.politicsone.com/news.htm were:

1) http://www.thedailyshow.com/
On this site you can watch clips from the Daily Show With Jon Stewart. There are videos of his on show interviews. The reason I like this site is because I watch the show and Jon Stewart actually has a good grasp on what is going on in U.S. politics and internationally but uses humor as well (infotainment).

2) http://www.theonion.com/content/index
The Onion is a news source that is very opinionated and takes the harsher side of a story and adds humor to it. I like this site because they have the wackiest stories, and it's easier for me to read along with something if I'm laughing with it.

3) http://www.thesmokinggun.com/
The smoking gun is a website with celebrity mugshots. The homepage as a featured document and mug shot of the week which involves a funny and weird case. I like this site because it is pretty funny to see celbrity mug shots and what they got in trouble for.

Degrees of Access

5 Observations I made while overlooking the slideshow:

1) The percentages between those who use the internet or email is not much different from owning the cell phone( College grads: 92% internet or email use, 89% own a cell phone).

2) English-Speaking Hispanics led all ethnicitys in internet and email use with 80% (whites next closest woith 75%).

3) People with no high school degree was at 44%. It was probably so low because those people don't necessarilly have the funds or the technical know how to use the internet or email.

4) I thought men would be a little higher then women in internet in email use, they were both at 73%. The information I went over last time from pewinternet showed that men used it more.

5) I would have thought College Graduates would have been higher in both internet and email use and ownership of a cell phone (Internet and email use-91%, Ownership of cell phone- 89%), because they are the age group that tends to try and stay in touch with old college and high school friends.

Degrees of Access (May 2008 data)

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Degrees of Access (May 2008 data)

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