Ypulse Essentials: DQ Video Game, Pepsi’s ’09 Relaunch, Fair Use And Media Literacy
Posted by meredith on 12-29-2008
Editor’s Note: Just a reminder — we’ll be posting tomorrow, but taking the rest of the week off for the holiday. Happy New Year’s!
DQ on PS3? (Not quite, but Dairy Queen has launched a new video game that lets players experience what it’s like to run a fast food franchise. The game is a follow-up to the interactive kids’ site Deeqs.com that the brand introduced earlier this year. Also, a health insurance company embraces games on Facebook as a means to spread a message about health) (New York Times, reg. required) (MediaPost, reg. required)
- CA schools take a stand (against cyberbullying. Also a new rating system for websites is introduced in the UK. British officials say that the government plans to negotiate with Obama’s administration to draw up new international rules to better protect kids online) (Jezebel) (Reuters)
- CW’s ‘Privileged’ loses its Dawson (EW came up with this analogy, but it seems fitting) (Entertainment Weekly)
- Defriending (sure, it’s not the nicest gesture, but isn’t the woman who calls out the defriender to her face much ruder? Just saying…) (Wall Street Journal)
- Speed pimping (Fox News catches teens abusing red light cameras for mischievous means) (Fox News)
- Disney brings premature end to Narnia franchise (Defamer looks back at where it all went wrong. Additional details in Variety) (Defamer) (Variety)
- More on CollegeProwler’s faux-profile controversey (from The New York Times featuring a response from Facebook. Plus The Boston Globe discovers the evil that is Juicy Campus) (New York Times, reg. required)
- Pepsi’s New Year’s Resolution? (to get millennials buzzing about their massive relaunch and new “Refresh” campaign. Plus Gen Y values crowd wisdom over the experts) (New York Post) (The Marketing Student)
- Satellite radio for the pre-school crowd (Sirius Radio launches “Kids Stuff,” a three hour set of music and storytelling) (MediaPost, reg. required)
- A lesson in fair use and media the the classroom (Derek Baird shares a great video outlining guidelines for how educators can integrate media without worrying about copyright) (Derek Baird: Barking Robot)
Correction for our Newsletter readers: The link for Nickelodeon’s Upick site was broken in last Tuesday’s newsletter. Here it is: Upick
Categorized under: Ypulse Essentials
December 30th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
[...] *Social media: The Wall Street Journal takes on the unsavory topic of DEFRIENDING. I have long been a staunch advocate of defriending, and defriend at least once a week. I have to tell you, without fail it feels great. I’d guess that I eventually refriend about 15% of the people I defriend. [ypulse] [...]