Ypulse Essentials
Posted by anastasia on 09-18-2006
Virtual 'Laguna Beach' (hmmm…this concept feels somewhat limiting for a virtual reality game where half the fun is creating your own world [and it will be full of advertisers], but MTV thinks teens will show up to the pool party. They're also hoping parents of Nick viewers will want to connect online) (New York Times, reg. required)
- What's on YouTube (it's the latest trend report from Asi Sharabi. Plus unlike Universal, Warner Music is embracing YouTube) (USA Today)
- Teens think the first amendment goes too far (Yikes! New research from the Knight Foundation also shows that they feel they should not have to get permission to write about certain topics in their high school newspapers…) (Poynter)
- Radio ads on buses… (combined with music designed to calm unruly kids — while selling them products….ick) (USA Today)
- Teens love the 80s (and it makes me feel very old) (The Houston Chronicle)
- Will The CW work? (Radar is back online and looks at the prospects for the network formerly known as The WB and UPN)
- Follow the clues online (HerInteractive's site promoting its PC mystery games based on the Nancy Drew books)
- Fans becoming authors (The WSJ has an interesting article on the mainstreaming of fan fiction…I used to work with a woman who wrote naughty things about the characters on Dawson's Creek…)
- Teachers who blog too much (USA Today looks at the phenomenon of teacher blogs and when it can get educators in trouble. Check out this blogroll of education blogs for some inside scoop)