Ypulse Essentials: A Decade In Music, GirlTalk Radio, Microsoft Fights The Aging Process

Editor’s Note: Ypulse will be taking the rest of the week off for the holiday, but we’ll be back on Monday. Happy New Year!

The decade in music (nice retrospective from USA Today on the rise of digital, the fall of record companies and the future of fame. See my Year in Review post today for our thoughts on the latter. Also record company-backed video hub Vevo starts putting pressure on teen Muziic founder. Erm, sounds like a familiar strategy, no?)
(CNET)

- GirlTalk Radio (a podcast by and for young girls who love math and science featuring interviews with women from various science-based professions. How cool is this?) (Boing Boing)

- Phelps resurfaces at Subway (the sponsor that stuck by features Phelps in a new TV spot. And more talk around the wisdom behind Pepsi bowing out of the Super Bowl in favor of an online push) (Brandweek) (MediaPost, reg. required)

- Microsoft fights the aging process (by taking a good, hard look at how to keep and recruit Gen Y’ers into their ranks. Definitely check out the excerpts from the employee authored paper titled “Are You Ready for Generation Y?”) (ZDNet)

- Mommy and me… and Jenny Craig (in an effort to curb the obesity epidemic, a study on whether overweight children find it easier to lose weight and stay healthy with a parent pursuing the same goal. Also kids today miss out on the benefits of boredom) (Seattle P-I) (Telegraph)

- ‘White Flight’ (danah boyd shares a draft of an upcoming article that explores her research on the racial divisions reflected in social networks)

- Can ‘Idol’ survive without Simon? (Ad Age, reg. required, speculates on how the rumored departure of AI resident villain will impact the already struggling show. Also a reality show about the real residents of Forks is in the works) (Hollyscoop)

- ‘The Decline of the English Department’ (a look at the varied reasons why undergraduates are shifting away from the humanities and what can be done to reverse the trend) (The American Scholar)