It’s not often I’m sitting at the table with a guy who advises Obama, Google and Sarkozy. But Jeff Cole, who leads the Digital Future report at Annenberg’s School of Communications, was the keynote at a conference I helped organize for Worldcom Public Relations Group, our global network of partner PR firms, and he was primed to talk about what he’s learned studying how we use the Internet for the past 11 years.

That’s actually a long time, in Internet time. Lifetimes, even. He and his team are now tracking behavior in 34 countries, which gives them, and us, a pretty interesting vantage point More >