18-year-old blogger

Teen blogging is definitely on parents', educators', reporters' radar screens now (it has been on law-enforcement ones a while longer). Stories about it - good, bad, and somewhere in between - are popping up in local news sites nationwide. In my newsletter this week, you'll find a sampler of the latest news and resources on the subject and, much more interesting, a blogger's own perspective on it all - that of Amanda, 18, an American au pair in The Netherlands and user of three blogging sites. She emailed me in response to "A mom writes: Teen solicited in MySpace," a feature I ran last August.