Today I got an email from Matt at Audible. It went out to some kind of a list, but it included two documents, an overview of the company and its services in general, and an overview of its services for libraries. When Matt spoke at our Tech Summit in September, only the Kalamazoo and Highland Community College libraries were actively circulating Audible titles. NOLA was just getting started, but now there are four more libraries on board the program. Here's their list, which is labeled as "partial":

• King County, Washington
• NOLA (Northern Ohio system)
• Kalamazoo, MI
• Broome County, NY
• Carroll County, MD
• Highland County, IL Community Coll.
• Rochester, NY (Henrietta Branch)

In my previous post about Audible, I was thinking of the Kalamazoo Public Library, not King County. KPL has a page devoted to their MP3 audiobook program, and it includes first and second quarter reports (both in PDF format). Their program has also been wildly successful.

Also of interest in Audible's general overview document is continued progress towards something called "AudibleWireless," which provides "customized spoken audio content based on the customer's individual selections, delivered to a wireless device or accessed with an ordinary handset."

So the next time you see an ad for a cell phone or PDA that plays MP3s and you ask yourself why on earth anyone would want that, now you know. It's another type of Heavenly Jukebox digital content coming to you wherever you are via your wireless device. I wonder if Audible can partner with satellite radio companies in order to stream content of your choosing to your car or home stereo.  Hey, Matt....

Two articles about a Girl Scout report that studied girls' use of the Internet. It's interesting to see the different takes on them.

Girl Scouts Survey Net Sex [at Wired News]

"Of the girls who said they were harassed, only 7 percent reported telling their parents what had happened. Thirty percent said they 'didn't tell anyone' about the incidents, and another 21 percent said that such harassment 'happens all the time and is no big deal.' Girls were reluctant to inform their parents, said Whitney Roban, the survey's senior researcher, because the teens are "worried they'll be blamed for what happened (and) that parents will take away their Internet connection."

"Teens aren't going to accept such "blanket prohibitions" against Internet use, added Harriet Mosatche, a child and adolescent psychologist also at the event. Fifty-eight percent of the girls surveyed by the Scouts considered themselves the savviest computer user in the household."

Girls Know Way Around Net, Parents [at USA Today]

"58% of girls say they are the savviest computer user at home; 14% say Mom knows the most, while 11% say Dad does." Go moms!

"Most girls say they can get around parents' rules; 86% say they can secretly chat, 57% can read parents' e-mail, and 54% can carry on a cyber love affair. Nearly half say they're able to set up an in-person meeting with an online friend (46%) and get into a porn site (42%), while 18% say they can hack into their school's computer."