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Posted by anastasia on 07-31-2006

creationfest.jpgCreation Fest 2006 (It’s Lollapalooza for the Christian teen set. Check out this cool Flash photo gallery with audio) (Seattle Post Intelligencer)

- AdAge weighs in on Teen People’s demise (“Teen mags? So five years ago) (reg. required)

- Moguls of new media (WSJ’s “new media power list” including the teens behind Mugglecast)

- YouTube the new no. 1 (The Guardian, reg. required, says YouTube is now the number one community site on the web. Plus Ze Frank breaks down YouTube’s copy right issues as only Ze can.)

- Marketing to teens on MySpace (CNET has a story with experts asserting teens get confused when marketers try to be their friend. I’m not so sure I buy that. Read Chet’s post today — this generation is very, very savvy about when they are being marketed to. Little kids, yes. Older teens — they’ll just reject you if you’re a lame brand and accept you if you’re not.)

- CNN gets into UGC (with its new citizen journalism site Exchange)

- Teen interns (they’re the latest accessory) (New York Times Sunday Styles, reg. required)

- These are some mice on drugs (cool teaching tool) (apophenia)

- Parenting cliques (The Washington Post, reg. required, asks “are you a toxic parent” as parents of teens disagree on the best way to deal with teen partying)

- Empty dorms? (after the Baby Boomlet, will colleges run out of kids? Plus: Education Life on “How the echo boom is shaping the college search” in the New York Times, reg. required) (USA Today)

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