Ypulse Essentials
Posted by anastasia on 10-20-2006
Critics love or hate 'Marie' (Personally, I'm excited to see it — if the movie is anything like what Baz Luhrmann did with Romeo & Juliet, I'm game, though the biggest critique is all style, no substance whereas Romeo & Juliet had style but stayed true to the text)
- Current Flavorpill (Current TV launches a programming partnership with Flavorpill)
- Heroes are everywhere… (even on "Guiding Light." Marvel teams with the long-running soap) (Fortwayne.com)
- Meta Mania TV (Online video site aimed at the college crowd and also known as "the new home of Tom Green" launches a broadband show about itself) (MediaWeek)
- Mixed tapes are back (except they're mostly CDs or playlists…Pop Candy on the International Mixed Tape Project)
- 'Friday Night Lights' a hit with teens (and with me — did anyone else cry this week when the delusional girlfriend and the best friend in denial broke down over the paralyzed quarterback?) (Media Life Magazine)
- Killing aliens… (and learning, too. New study shows video games can be used for educational purposes) (Newsweek)
- Global Kids expands its efforts in Second Life (and other initiatives thanks to funding from MacArthur) (press release)
- Can you dissect a virtual frog? (controversy of virtual science education) (New York Times, reg. required)





