Anybody who questioned the Pew Internet and American Life report about how teens use the internet and how they expect conversations and interactivity from the online services they use might do well to take a look at this comment on my Chernobyl Tour story:
Student Looking for Info that your not give us
February 3rd, 2006 10:11
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Posted February 5, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: blog, blog comment, blog comments, blogs, blogs are conversations, comments, future libraries, internet generation, libraries, library, millennials, reference blog, social internet, social web, teens, web 2.0. Be the first one.

No, I don’t mean that they’re disrupting it, I mean they’re getting it. And in saying that, I don’t mean they’re figured it our first, but they they’re making some damn good acquisitions to get it right.
Mostly, I’m speaking of they’re purchase of Flickr last year and their acquisition of del.icio.us Friday. But in a [...]

Posted December 14, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: delicious, flickr, internet, social network, social networks, social software, social web, web 2.0 web20, yahoo. 5 Comments.

Jenny Levine alerted me to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report on teens as both content creators and consumers.
It turns out that teens, and teen girls especially, are highly active online IMing, sharing photos, blogging, reading and commenting on other’s blogs, and gaming. An especially strong trend in this group is the use [...]

Posted November 8, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: 4cs, collaboration, commons, community, conversation, interactivity, internet, jenny levine, pew internet, pew internet & american life project, pew internet project, social internet, social software, social web, teenagers, teens, youth. 4 Comments.