foe romeo: A creative generation has a post about a report on children from the UK and their online activity. The most important piece follows:
“Even more interestingly, the study found that 17% of young people have sent pictures or stories to a website and “online creativity can be encouraged through the very experience of using the internet.” That is, the more time kids spend online, the more likely they are to produce their own content. And interaction breeds interaction. Does that mean we can safely assume that as internet usage increases its media timeshare, more and more people will become creative producers as well as consumers?”
This is part of what I always thought the Internet could produce in its users. That if you use it enough, you will be prompted to start contributing yourself. Technologies like blogs and wikis are making it even easier for kids to participate and showcase their creativity.

The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray by Chris Wooding (0-439-54656-7)
This amazing teen novel has a setting that is completely captivating and overwhelming: a gas-lit London filled with fog and all sort of monstrous horrors.
This London is filled with wych-kin, monsters that suddenly appeared in London after the bombings during the war and have taken over a section of London. Thaniel is a wych-hunter, who hunts down the wych-kin when they begin to encroach on other sections of London. But there are more horrors in store for Thaniel when he finds Alaizabel Cray who is possessed by another spirit named Thatch. Who is Alaizabel and how did she come to be possessed?
It is one of the most terrifying novels for teens that I have ever read and also one of the best written and most fascinating. What a combination to be able to offer horror fans! They will be unable to put it down.