Ypulse Essentials: Go Goddess!, Back to School Billions, Harry Potter Reviewed
Posted by anastasia on 07-19-2007
'American Idol' apparel ("A line of rock n' roll-inspired clothing for girls and tweens hits mass-market retailers next February, with prices for the denim-based line ranging between $10 and $40 for T-shirts, jeans, dresses and vests.") (Reuters)
- Tween goddesses (check out Go Goddess — a relatively new kid on the tween website block — at least to me!)
- Teens [and their parents] will spend lots (on back to school this fall) (Marketwatch)
- Teens still watching TV (just less than their parents!) (Media Buyer Planner)
- Young people who rock (CNN's blog/attempt to attract younger viewers by profiling the ones "who rock" on this blog)
- Slate grades Toyota's 'Sheeple' game (they gave it a B-)
- Youth gone sponsored (the New York Times, reg. required, on the increasing number of sponsored young skaters. Plus the new XGames site)
- Levis launches a record label (in Australia, joining Starbucks, Coke and Scion, who are already in the music biz) (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Gen Y @ work (flexible hours, entrepreneurship, etc.) (WebWorker Daily)
- Debate over YouTube debates (mixed reviews of the upcoming attempt at election 2.0 from CNN/YouTube) (Washington Post, reg. required)
- If you just can't wait (the controversial New York Times review of the last "Harry Potter" book, reg. required))
July 19th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
MICHIKO KAKUTANI reviewed the Harry Potter book.
In 1999, she used a review of Al Gore's "Earth in the Balance" to slime Al Gore.
July 19th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
What's interesting about the gogoddess site is that the goddesses of today (you figure out which one "you" are by taking a quiz) aren't even representing the same things as they did in the mythological world.
Granted, I'm no goddess expert, but when they said Hera was the goddess of leadership, I was confused. Some are similar to their mythological counterparts (Venus, Diana) but others like Persephone, the goddess associated with Hades, is pretty off!
Just seemed like an odd website overall.