Ypulse Essentials: Tweens Heart DSi, Gen Y @ Work Report, Sneakerheads Worldwide
Posted by meredith on 04-09-2009
DSi = iPhone for kids? (will the portable gaming device become the must-have toy – i.e. killer app – for the 8 to 14 year-old set? GenDigital thinks so)
- Gen Y @ Work Report (The Intelligence Group’s Gen Y in the Workplace study takes a look at how Yer’s attitudes and expectations about work and career have changed over the course of the past tumultuous year. And a related study shows that young people have been more adversely affected by the economic downturn than others. Plus social banking service SmartyPig goes mobile) (Trend Central) (MSNBC) (Social Times)
- More on the social networking fatigue (we’ve been discussing. Not only with classics like Facebook, but newcomers, i.e. Twitter, too) (Yahoo Tech)
- Textual harassment (after a teen’s chronic texting racks up an outrageous bill, her frustrated dad took a hammer to the phone. Also the Coachella iPhone app lets festival goers check out the times and locations of specific shows. Simple, yet genius) (USA Today) (PSFK)
- Smells like.. (Rihanna and Kanye West sign on to launch perfumes with Jay-Z’s fragrance company in the summer 2010. Enough time for smoke to blow over? Hmmm… Also, Peep Insights give Sneakerheads their due with a global immersion that covers sneaker culture in different cities. Fun fact: there’s a Sneakerology 101 course at Carnegie Mellon) (MTV News) (PSFK)
- Who is still enrolling in journalism school? (asks the folks over at TechCrunch in response to the surprising spike in enrollment. And Greg Rollet’s thoughts on personal branding, with a shout out for Dan Schwabel’s new book on the subject Me 2.0) (Ars Technica)
- MTV rocks the vote overseas (urging young people in Europe to turn out for elections to the European Parliament this summer. Plus, the U.S. Army and the Ad Council add wake up calls and alarm ringtones recorded by professional athletes to the “Boost” a campaign to encourage teens to stay in school) (Variety)
- Disney discounts (improve theater ticket sales.) (Variety)
- Techno Tweens (an after-school program helps hone math skills through technology. Plus, The Wall Street Journal asks whether study sites like Cramster.com are a tool or a crutch. Also VOYA’s list of the best sci-fi, horror and fantasy for teens from 2008). (Washington Post, reg. required) (Kids Lit)
- A debate over debates (The Boston Globe questions the hypocrisy of hecklers on campus. Also a college student claims invasion of privacy when her MySpace rant against her hometown is published in the local paper as a letter to the editor. And Brown renames “Columbus Day” “Fall Weekend”) (Fox News) (Ars Technica) (Boston Globe)
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April 9th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
It’s fraudulent for a newspaper to present a blog-entry never sent to them as a Letter-to-the-Editor.
People in Coalinga who were upset by Cynthia Moreno’s statements might have been less upset if they had known the real context.
The Letters Page Editor was fired:
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The newspaper, The Coalinga Record also declined to comment, but the paper’s former editor tells me she was fired for printing Moreno’s myspace entry in the paper last year.
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April 9th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Ideally, the legal case would have been over the newspaper misleading the public by implying Cynthia Moreno had sent a letter she never sent instead of over privacy.