When I need a business phone number, I go to the yellow pages on Yahoo. When I want to know a sports score, I turn to ESPN. (In fact, if the Dodgers are playing and the game isn’t being broadcast up here in the Bay Area, I pull up a Java-enabled gamecast that allows me to follow the game pitch-by-pitch.) I pay my bills online. I am also, apparently, in the minority.

According to a new study released by the Pew Internet and American Life Project,  “while nearly all Internet users go online to conduct some of their ordinary day-to-day activities online, most still default to the traditional offline ways of communicating, transacting affairs, getting information and entertaining themselves. For instance, they are more likely to do these things offline than online: get news, play games, pay bills, send cards, look up phone numbers and addresses, buy tickets, check sports scores, listen to music, schedule appointments, and communicate with friends.”

You can download the complete report in PDF format at the Web site.