Ypulse Essentials: Ashton Kutcher's Web Series, 'The District,' Recession Raps
Posted by meredith on 02-04-2009
Ashton Kutcher's 'KatalystHQ' (the actor's new semi-scripted web series about a production company in Hollywood will be distributed by a Facebook app. Sounds a bit like CollegeHumor's new behind the scenes series) (Ad Age, reg. required)
- Alloy takes on TAKKLE.com (and expands its teen web community to include the realm of high school sports)
- 'The New Liberal Arts' (a collaborative project between Robin Sloane, Tim Carmody and others aims to chart the evolution of the field) (Snarkmarket)
- Facebook by the numbers (a great chart shows FB users by age) (Econsultancy)
- 'The District' (Newsweek's spoof on "The Hills" gives the president the Lauren Conrad treatment) (Newsweek)
- Recession rap (Cam'ron raps his way through hard times. And a survey shows Gen Y's decrease in job satisfaction Plus Gen Yers working harder than they thought to find employment) (Where Hip Hop and Libertarianism Meet) (CNN) (National Business Review)
- Campus safety (a new office will be in charge of determining policies that will help train university security forces) (Associated Press)
- YouTube copyright crackdown (gets out of hand with a rendition of "Winter Wonderland" getting pulled for infringement) (ReadWriteWeb)
- Talk about early admission (a new program in San Francisco helps 6th graders get a head start on their college admissions) (SF Gate)
Categorized under: Ypulse Essentials
February 5th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
RE Winter Wonderland
"Using YouTube's new automated copright detection technology, Warner Brothers detected last month that 15 year old Juliet Weybret had posted a video of herself playing the piano and singing the 1934 song Winter Wonderland. This unrepentant little criminal might have thought that such a widely covered tune had entered the public domain, 75 years after it was recorded, but Juliet was clearly unfamiliar with legislation like the Sony Bono Copyright Extension Act, which extended copyright protection to 95 years or more after publication date."
We should be asking Congress to repeal the Sony Bono Copyright Extension Act.