The Pew Internet and American Life Project just released a report (Broadband: What’s All the Fuss About?) that helps answer the new age question of – what do we need with all of that bandwidth anyways?

In a nutshell they say that broadband links allow people to join the networked society by becoming a publisher – either with a web site, a blog, a profile on a social networking site, or simply by participating in online discussions. Online video is the new up and coming attraction and is already starting to take hold with tools such as YouTube.

It used to be that online publishing and networking was really the realm of young people and techies – well that’s not the case anymore. Continue reading →