My colleague Tom McHale asked that question in a comment on an earlier post, and it’s been sticking in my brain ever since. He followed it up with “Seems to me that at this point some should have emerged.”

Hmmm…any nominees?

Please welcome the fourth and final Richardson blogger to the family. Tucker took a sip of the Kool-Aid last night, and this morning he called me at work and said, “Daddy! I did another blog! Can you go read it?” I was there before I hung up. And, of course, sister Tess was not to be outdone (though at 6 and 8 respectively they are in the “let’s have mom and dad type for us” mode…That’ll pass.) Maybe the two of them will guilt Wendy into doing some more blogging of her own. (She’s not going to save the world if she doesn’t.) And maybe now we can start having some serious dinner conversations about what is and isn’t blogging.

JUST KIDDING! (Especially after I’ve been labeled as sexist.)

Anyway, the family blog portrait is now complete. Is that a good thing, I wonder????
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From today’s New York Times, “The Lives of Teenagers Now: Open Blogs, Not Locked Diaries,” a really interesting article about how teens are beginning to use content creation as a way of public expression. The stat graph is:

According to the Pew survey, 57 percent of all teenagers between 12 and 17 who are active online - about 12 million - create digital content, from building Web pages to sharing original artwork, photos and stories to remixing content found elsewhere on the Web. Some 20 percent publish their own Web logs.

Note the “who are active online” part. And notice the “remix” part.

I love this quote too:

From school libraries and living rooms, millions of teenagers are staking out cyberterritory in places like MySpace.com, Xanga.com and Livejournal.com, where they matter-of-factly construct their individual online presence, often to the chagrin of parents and schoolteachers who have belatedly discovered whole nations of teenagers churning out content under their noses.

And there is a lot more. Read the whole thing if you want to get a grip on what’s happening “out there.”