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The youngest generation use every medium of communication possible but avoid the actual phone conversation, an average teen amasses 3,000 texts per month.

Somewhat user generated media and news.

"There are many tech blogs around, but this one by Amit Agarwal, India truly has the best tech blog. Its no surprise that it generates more than 1 million hits per month. Strong content. Worth a visit."

The Catholic Church is joinging the blogosphere.Pope Benedict said "Priests are thus challenged to proclaim the Gospel by employing the latest generation of audiovisual resources -- images, videos, animated features, blogs, Web sites..."

You may have seen this PSA on television, Facebook, radio, or websites; Text HAITI to 90999. To date, this campaign has raised over $30 million. It's generated the largest donation from text message in history. Just anther way multimedia/technology is changing the world, right before our eyes!

Internet art piece by Johnathan Harris and Sep Kamvar. Scroll down and click on "Interactive Version" to see it. What is it? Well, as stated on their "Mission" page: "We Feel Fine is an exploration of human emotion on a global scale. Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved."

This article talks about how our generation stays connected primarily through the web and social media sites, but that we aren't really building much of a community.