Ypulse Essentials: Chris Brown Fans Stand Up, Entry Level Jobs Get A Downgrade, The Dora Debate Continues
Posted by meredith on 03-19-2009
Teen fans take a stand for Chris Brown (the pop star faces felony charges for assaulting his girlfriend Rihanna, but young girls are remaining devoted. So disturbing. In other unsettling news, teen birth rates are up for the second year in a row) (New York Times, reg. required) (Washington Post)
- Crowdsourcing college tuition (a high school senior designs a website to collect donations for the considerable price tag of her private institution of choice. Plus, the AP spells out the good news and the bad news for the college-bound) (Detroit Free Press)
- GirlMogul Magazine (a new online magazine/blog aimed to empower tween girls.Plus, Mashable spotlights Girl Ambition, another tween girl powered site, that adds a lesson in net safety)
- NBA goods go virtual (and will now be available in WeeWorld and RockYou among other online hangouts) (Virtual World News)
- ‘Wintergirls’ (a nice roundup of reviews for Laurie Halse Anderson’s latest on Omnivicious. Plus, our own Casey interviews YA author/I Heart Daily founder Melissa Walker on her blog. Plus, a first look at the “Where The Wild Things Are” movie poster gets the buzz going again) (teenfashionista)
- Are entry-level jobs a dead end?(a depressing reminder from Gawker that a first gigs don’t mean what it used to. Sigh)
- Is Facebook addictive? (while other adults adopt the “can’t beat em, join em” attitude, some can’t help but fight a losing battle. Moreover, Derek Baird reminds us that older generations couldn’t live without the web either) (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
- The Dora Debate (more chime in about what’s wrong with Dora growing up. Plus, Scout Lab compares the outrage over the older Dora with the strong reaction previously lodged against the Bratz dolls) (Targeting Kids)
- Teens help capture hacker (looking for nude pics.. Thanks Derek!) (TC Palm)
- Scholastic wins “Best of Web” (for their special online coverage of the election. Plus. after spotting Kumon tutoring centers around New York, PSFK questions the traditional methods)
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