Information Research Weblog

There's a lot of chatter on the Net about the latest Pew Internet study, which categorises IT users according to their relationship with the technology, from the Ominvores, who constitute 8% of the population of the USA, and who 'have the most information gadgets and services, which they use voraciously to participate in cyberspace and express themselves online and do a range of Web 2.0 activities such as blogging or managing their own Web pages.', to those who are Off the Network, and who have 'neither cell phones nor internet connectivity tend to be older adults who are content with old media', who constitute 15% of the population

c|net news has a nice pie chart of the data.