Ypulse Essentials: Glee! Concert Dates, Slackoisie, Random House Builds Video Game Team
Posted by meredith on 03-01-2010
Glee Live! (announces concert dates. Plus Cyndi Lauper and Lady Gaga are doing a live chat today on Ustream today sponsored by the MAC Viva Glam line. And cue the thousand crying copycats: a viral YouTube video earns a crying 3-year-old fan a Justin Bieber visit care of Jimmy Kimmel) (Pop Candy) (Mashable)
- Random House gets into the video game biz (setting up an in-house team to "create original stories for videogames and provide story advice for games in development." Also Disney launches iPhone apps for new releases "Alice in Wonderland" and "Pixie Hollow." ) (WSJ) (iPhone-Codes)
- Should colleges ask about sexual orientation (Gawker picks up the debate in light of news that some universities are actively recruiting gay students) (Inside HigherEd)
- 'Slackoisie' (a recent Urban Dictionary entry offers up this new derogatory label as fighting words towards Gen Y workers. Plus more serious media discussions around the recent Pew Research: The Atlantic considers why Millennials are so optimistic And Newsweek on whether Gen Yers are actually better at navigating the current job market. Also Forbes on Millennials next political and professional moves) (WSJ)
- Taylor Lautner backs out of Max Steele (to focus his energies on his other upcoming action star role as Hasbro's Stretch Armstrong. Also Miley does an "un-Disney' duet with Poison frontman Bret Michaels. Does this even merit an eyebrow raise anymore?) (Cynopsis Kids) (MSNBC)
- Teen girls (a quick refresher on do's and don'ts of marketing to the demo. Plus an "emotional expert" interprets teens' anxiety over parents' financial troubles as an egocentric response. ) (Mediaweek) (Media Jobs Daily)
- April is School Library Month (YA author Laurie Halse Anderson teams up with the American Association of School Librarians and its members to celebrate the 25th anniversary)
Categorized under: Ypulse Essentials
March 1st, 2010 at 4:48 pm
Re "Should colleges ask about sexual orientation?"
No.
Colleges shouldn't consider sexual orientation, race, geography, gender, or grades.
Admission should be based solely on multiple-choice tests which objectively compare students to each other.