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Small websites get less traffic than big ones, but they can still dominate their niches. For each question users ask, the Web delivers a different set of sites to provide the answers. We've known since 1997 that the Web follows a Zipf distribution for website popularity as expressed in traffic and incoming links. Simply stated, big sites get disproportionally more traffic than smaller sites.(Rich Gordon) For most newspapers, the average reader spends more time with a print edition on a single day than the average user of the paper's Web site spends in an entire month. According to recently released Readership Institute research , the average newspaper reader spends 26 minutes with a weekday issue of a print paper, and 57 minutes with a Sunday edition. By contrast, at 46 of the 50 most popular newspaper Web sites , users average less time in a month than this 26-minute average for a single weekday print edition. What should we make of this disparity?
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This paper offers an account of the perceptions of citizens from the U.K. and Germany on the subject of interoperable electronic identity (eID) systems. This study suggests that the perceived risks derive from, and are amplified by, low trust beliefs in public authorities responsible for identity management. Three dimensions of trustworthiness in government were found — competence, integrity and benevolence — constructed from negative past experiences of IT failures, function creep, and political history of oppression.
This paper offers an account of the perceptions of citizens from the U.K. and Germany on the subject of interoperable electronic identity (eID) systems. This study suggests that the perceived risks derive from, and are amplified by, low trust beliefs in public authorities responsible for identity management. Three dimensions of trustworthiness in government were found — competence, integrity and benevolence — constructed from negative past experiences of IT failures, function creep, and political history of oppression.
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