Ypulse Essentials: Punk'd Revived Online, Pirates Buy More Music, Oxygen Makes A Play For Younger Women
Posted by meredith on 04-21-2009
'Punk'd' revived on Ustream (after proving his virtual pull last week with a call — and response — for 1m Twitter followers, Ashton Kutcher relaunches the popular prank show online. Plus, on TV Justin Timberlake's new MTV game show "The Phone"picks up where Ashton left off.. and critics aren't impressed) (TechCrunch) (The Washington Post, reg. required)
- Pirates purchase more music (a recent study reveals that the biggest downloaders of illegal music are also the most likely to pay.. occasionally. And on ars technica record companies' skeptical response to the bittersweet news) (Guardian)
- HBO's 'Brave New Voices' (A documentary captures Bay Area org Youth Speaks' teen poetry slam. Plus, the 10-year-old author of "How to Talk to Girls," also knows how to start a franchise) (Mercury News) (USA Today)
- Kia promotes Soul on XBox (with a national sweepstakes to win a new car, a VIP, all-expenses-paid trip to LA for the 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo, and several more minor Microsoft prizes, including an err.. Zune) (MediaPost, reg. required)
- Oxygen gets fresh (angling towards the younger female demo with racier shows like "Bad Girls Club" and "Pretty Wicked") (Forbes)
- Is Gen Y so vain? (Conflicting studies on narcissism in young people today. Plus, a Motorola survey in the UK on the importance of media mobility to Millennials. And the rise of the 'flirtexting' trend in Canada) (USA Today) (Calgary Herald)
- Kellogs called out.. again (this time by the FTC for false claims that Frosted Mini-Wheats increased kids' ability to pay attention. Also, The New Yorker examines why more college students are abusing ADHD meds) (MediaPost, reg. required)
- Virtual education gets 3D (course management platforms Blackboard and Moodle sign up with ExitReality. Also, MTV helps New York Mayor Bloomberg broadcast his call for young volunteers) (Virtual World News) (New York Times, reg. required)
- Before jumping to conclusions about video game addiction (ars technica considers the limitations of the study and the diagnosis of "pathological gaming." Plus, more on SuperSecret's virtual world for tweens where players get to play the game of growing up) (ars technica) (Virtual World News)
- 'empowerME' (Cheetah Girl Sabrina Bryan teams up with The Alliance for a Healthier Generation to challenge tweens to create their own workout video. Also, video platform Animoto invites non-profits to promote their cause online with free and unlimited use of their services) (Extra)
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April 21st, 2009 at 11:54 am
RE "Is Gen Y so vain?"
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-04-20-narcissism-youth_N.htm
Such traits, (Jean) Twenge says, include a very positive and inflated sense of self, which is illustrated by a preoccupation with MySpace, Facebook and YouTube.
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I was a kid in the 1970s. We watched "The Love Boat" on television. It was the best thing on at the time. There was no "MySpace, Facebook and YouTube."
Would she prefer that today's young people were watching re-runs of "The Love Boat" instead of communicating with each other through "MySpace, Facebook and YouTube"?
I'm glad today's young people have options I didn't have in the 1970s.
If they are more vain, then fine.
Instead of using the negative-sounding term "vain," one could use the positive-sounding term "self-esteem" for the same trait.
April 21st, 2009 at 12:51 pm
It so wonderful to see Sabrina Bryan making a change for young kids and getting invloved.She rocks!