Ypulse Essentials: Beat Bullying, More Freak Dance Bans, Locker Talk

MTV invades the Middle East (with hip hop as its weapon Plus a feature on VBS.tv, which MTV funds but is not really promoting) (USA Today) (New York Times, reg. required)

- South Korea… (finds inspiration from China and is running bootcamps for technology addicts) (New York Times, reg. required)

- Beat Bullying (UK anti-bullying .org launches a channel on YouTube)

- Social networking @ school (I mentioned this in Friday's Essentials - it's the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood's attack on the NSBA report, which was funded in part by MySpace) (L.A. Times, reg. required)

- Schools banning freak dancing (this story feels kind of old but I guess more schools are doing it) (USA Today)

- TechNOT trend (a new report says youth are going retro as a way to "seek temporary salvation from the cutting edge," i.e. tech/info overload) (The Independent)

- No more junkers (parents, teens spending more money on first cars) (Patriot News)

- Kidzbop tour (it's not all about Hannah Montanna out there…Plus Izzy is building up a nice list of kid/tween virtual worlds) (The Pantagraph)

- Locker Talk ("a platform that a news organization could append to its online edition in an effort to attract youngsters age 10 to 14, who are inclined to ignore or thumb their noses at the old-fashioned printed edition" Sounds like social networking for tweens meets newspaper reading online)

- Depressing decline (in youth reading…Will Amazon's new eBooks reader change this? BTW Ypulse will be launching on Kindle eventually) (Boston.com) (Newsweek)

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