Teen girls are more likely to have customized their own web page or to be a regular writer of a blog than their male counterparts, according to a study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project and reported by Stephanie Rosenbloom in today's New York Times. The study, "published in December [...] found that among Web users ages 12 to 17, significantly more girls than boys blog (35 percent of girls compared with 20 percent of boys) and create or work on their own Web pages (32 percent of girls compared with 22 percent of boys)."

Girls are also more likely to have done work for others on a web site or MySpace page than boys. The only area boys were more active online than girls was in video production, where they "are almost twice as likely as girls to post video files."

Read the complete article here; there are some interesting comments from the girls Rosenbloom interviewed, especially those who have already realized the entrepreneurial potential of their technical abilities.