Ypulse Essentials
Posted by anastasia on 11-15-2005
50 in print (controversial rapper teams with MTV/Pocket Books to publish hip-hop novels sure to depict the gritty thug life…) (AP via New York Daily News)
- Parents in denial (a fun and scary New York magazine poll of teens and parents [not their own parents, just parents of teens] showing the gap between what parents think teens are doing sexually and what they are actually doing…thanks Erin!)
- Children at not cattle (but worried parents can now brand them with temporary tattoos in case they get lost) (Iconoculture)
- Teens think Bush blew it on the government's response to Katrina (in the new issue of Trends and Tudes)
- Teen uses Web to find his sperm donor dad (raising lots of privacy concerns…) (SFgate.com)
- Virgin has Yahoo! Music seeing Red (Virgin's new music service is cheaper than Yahoo!'s…and they have a great tool to market it [hint: phones]) (Reuters)
- Come to Beyonce's House (her new clothing line is launching with…$100 jeans)
- They leap across buildings in a single bound (those crazy European parkour kids) (Christian Science Monitor via Reveries)
- Slate goes to campus (it's college week on Slate, which means lots of smart people writing stories about the state of high ed)
- SI on Campus (now just on the Web) (Media Life Magazine, second item)
- Metromix goes national (Chicago Tribune's "hip" local listings Web product aimed at 18-30 year olds expands…and this will be more successful than City Search, Digital Cities, and remember Sidewalk.com how?) (Somewhat Frank via Paid Content)
- Teen girls spend less time playing video games than adult women (interesting research on gaming from Adrants)
- Entertainment industry wins another battle against file sharing (college P2P network Internet2 research network has closed its doors) (News.com)
- Enrollment up at Christian colleges (yet Christian students showing more "liberal" attitudes about many social issues) (The Boston Globe via Reveries)
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