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Teen Content Creators and Consumers....American teenagers today are utilizing the interactive capabilities of the internet as they create and share their own media creations. Fully half of all teens and 57% of teens who use the internet could be considered Content Creators. They have created a blog or webpage, posted original artwork, photography, stories or videos online or remixed online content into their own new creations.

Broadband changing life in US: study...."Always on" broadband internet hook-ups are transforming American life, empowering grass roots politics, moulding new work and shopping habits and bringing far flung families closer.

Is the British blogosphere lagging behind?...An opinionated media and a less polarized political climate means U.K. bloggers don’t fill the same role as in the U.S. But Britblogs may have found a niche.

Towards professional participatory storytelling in journalism and advertising...The Internet has had a major impact on all levels of (information) societies throughout the world. For media professionals whose work has primarily been defined as creative storytelling — whether in advertising, journalism, the central question seems to be to what extent storytelling can be content– or connectivity–based, and what level of participation can or should be included in the narrative experience.

Copyleft...and other key concepts in the creative commons movement.

Journalism that Clicks....some online news sites exploit the multimedia, interactive and archival capabilities of the Web in ways that let journalists deliver on its promise of convergence. Other sites offer alternative takes on the news that allow users to form their own opinions about what’s happening in the world.

Print vs. Online Battle at 'Wash Post' with Froomkin in Middle...A debate is raging at The Washington Post, pitting the newspaper's traditional print staff (and newly appointed ombudsman) against a representative of a new generation of journalists who work for the company's Web site. The Post's Politics Editor, John Harris, fanned the flames with a post Monday evening, in which he suggested some in the newsroom wish to spike the Web column in question, although he does not.

Redefining freelancing with entrepreneurial Web journalism....
A first-person account of attracting funding - and readers - to an independent online journalism project that involved in-depth reporting abroad. Lives in Focus a multimedia blog, was the result. The project is an effort to document the lives of families struggling to buy anti-retroviral drugs in order to keep a family member healthy, and to show the challenges that stigmatized AIDS patients face while trying to earn enough money to buy lifesaving treatment.