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Just home from Belfast's Queens Film Theatre where a 7 minute pilot/preview of Good Vibrations was being screened to about 100 - 150 people.  "Don't get emotional, now." Said Jackie Hamilton (former Moondog now TV producer as he sat down in the row behind me.  Beside me was John T Davis the maker of the definitive film of the 1970s punk music era in Belfast Shellshock Rock. In a row further down Brian Young from Rudi and Stuart Bailie, now of the Oh Yeah centre. 

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Once a fortnight I write 400 words for the Belfast Telegraph about Twitter. But of course there is more to social media than text.

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This is not much more than a Sunday afternoon doodle locating the creative and digital industries (and related offices) around approximately a square mile in Belfast.

View Media Square Mile (and a bit) in a larger map

The idea came from the Silicon Roundabout map in Wired (UK) 2.10 (Feb 2009) More about that here.  It’s not exhaustive. It’s open to add as you see fit. View Media Square Mile (and a bit) in a larger map

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The kids don't blog.

“Since 2006, blogging has dropped among teens and young adults while simultaneously rising among older adults. As the tools and technology embedded in social networking sites change, and use of the sites continues to grow, youth may be exchanging ‘macro-blogging’ for microblogging with status updates.”

 

So says a Pew Internet report on Young Adults and Social Media  http://ow.ly/13SAz 

Follow that link to read it yourself.  But is your attention span is already waining and you are about to go looking for different eye candy, here are a few facts you can drop into conversation

• 14% of online teens now say they blog, down from 28% of teen internet users in 2006.
• This decline is also reflected in the lower incidence of teen commenting on blogs within social networking websites; 52% of teen social network users report commenting on friends’ blogs, down from the 76% who did so in 2006.
• By comparison, the prevalence of blogging within the overall adult internet population has remained steady in recent years. Pew Internet surveys since 2005 have consistently found that roughly one in ten online adults maintain a personal online journal or blog.

So if one report says they don't blog, and another says they don't Tweet.  What the hell are those kids up to now, then?

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