Mercury News: Livermore hosts Teen Film Festival
--"The library's first Teen Film Festival, "An Independent View," is slated for Wednesday night and will showcase filmmakers in the 12-to-18 age range.
"There's lots of really good ones," said librarian Mary Sue Nocar, who came up with the festival idea. The festival will include all 11 submitted films, each with a length of five minutes or less."

Information Week: Teen Social Networking Spawns Online Ecosystem
--"It is not a surprise that teens are actively engaged in social networking sites like MySpace and YouTube," Ken Cassar, chief analyst for Nielsen/NetRatings, said in a statement released this week. "What is surprising, however, is the extent to which a wide array of supporting Web sites has developed in conjunction with these bigger, more well-known Web destinations. MySpace and YouTube have spawned a vibrant online ecosystem."

Computer World: IT Managers Told to Think Young
--"Teenagers and young adults are racing ahead of their elders in adopting new technologies and processes for collaborating, such as wikis and video sharing. And Gartner analysts said repeatedly that companies poised for future growth need to be clued in to the so-called consumerization of IT — a point driven home by Google Inc.’s agreement to acquire online video-sharing company YouTube Inc. for stock valued at $1.65 billion."