BBC News via Rochelle at LISNews, as well as Jenny Levine’s Shifted Librarian. Related: Pew report. The e-book angle? Obvious. Wouldn’t it be cool if the kids could do deep links to online books of consenting publishers? It’ll happen in the OpenReader era. Oh to break down the barriers between libraries and the Net. While Google’s library efforts and the OCA and the rest are great first steps, the right infrastructure doesn’t exist today. Rather than condemning online content as garbage, we should help young bloggers be able to point to well-written, factual books, not just articles. Hello, Michael Gorman? Oh, never mind. Meanwhile here’s an excerpt from the Pew report:
Some 57% of online teens create content for the internet. That amounts to half of all teens ages 12-17, or about 12 million youth. These Content Creators report having done one or more of the following activities: create a blog; create or work on a personal webpage; create or work on a webpage for school, a friend, or an organization; share original content such as artwork, photos, stories, or videos online; or remix content found online into a new creation.
–The most popular Content Creating activities are sharing self-authored content and working on webpages for others.
–33% of online teens share their own creations online, such as artwork, photos, stories, or videos.
–32% say that they have created or worked on webpages or blogs for others, including those for groups they belong to, friends or school assignments.
–22% report keeping their own personal webpage.
–19% have created their own online journal or blog.
–About one in five internet-using teens (19%) says they remix content they find online into their own artistic creations.Teens are much more likely than adults to blog and they are also more likely to read blogs. Blogs are a type of webpage, typically created and maintained with software that allows internet users to easily post material to a webpage, usually displaying the material in reverse chronological order with the newest items at the top.
–19% of online youth ages 12-17 have created their own blog. That is approximately four million people.
–38% of all online teens, or about 8 million young people, say they read blogs.
–7% of adult internet users say they have created their own blog and 27% of online adults say they read blogs.
