Young blog their way to a publishing revolution

• UK Poll shows a third of 14- to 21-year-olds now have their own online content
• Fast-changing world of the internet poses challenge to old media

Owen Gibson, media correspondent Friday October 7, 2005 The Guardian

The extent of the personal publishing revolution has been revealed by a Guardian/ICM poll showing that a third of all young people online have launched their own blog or website. Millions of young people who have grown up with the internet and mobile phones are no longer content with the one-way traffic of traditional media and are publishing and aggregating their own content, according to the exclusive survey of those aged between 14 and 21.