Two New Pew Diffusion Reports Released

The Pew Internet & American Life Project has released two excellent diffusion reports over the month of July.  Their Home Broadband Adoption 2007 report by John Horrigan as well as their most current report, China's Online Population Explosion by Deborah Fallows, provide the most recent (and accurate) data to date on Internet diffusion characteristics.  According to a couple of emails I've gotten from Pew manager Cornelia Carter-Sykes, both reports produce predictable, yet still important, results.

The Home Broadband Report finds that nearly half (47%) of all adult Americans now have a high-speed internet connection at home. The percentage of Americans with broadband at home has grown from 42% in early 2006 and 30% in early 2005. For the full report, click here. 

China's Online Population Explosion notes there are now an estimated 137 million internet users in China, second in number only to the United States, where estimates of the current internet population range from 165 million to 210 million.  Furthermore, the growth rate of China's internet user population has been out pacing that of the U.S., and China is projected to overtake the U.S. in the total number of users within a few years.

If you'd like to participate interactively with Pew, you can take the Internet Typology Test here. Or, if you insist on being a technological omnivore, you can always go back to my Pew Typology of Tech users.