Ypulse Essentials: 'Twilight' Arrives, HSM Gets Real, Gen Y Hunts For Holiday Jobs
Posted by meredith on 11-21-2008
Twilight reviews are in (and the critics say… meh? What about fans? Did the film meet their stratospheric expectations? Plus Marketplace on how "Twilight" is keeping the teen girl market afloat in tough times) (Entertainment Weekly)
- The end of @edu? (To cut costs, Boston College offers students forwarding services instead of new email addresses. Will other universities follow suit?) (ReadWriteWeb)
- Teen broadcasts suicide (on Justin.Tv, a disturbing and hopefully singular incident for the live-streaming service. Also in the wake of Megan Meier, teens start nationwide campaign against cyberbullying) (Wired) (CBS)
- ThinkCommon.com (the socially-conscious rapper launches a flashy new site. Also The Economist asks how MTV Online will keep pace with MySpace, YouTube and the like) (The Economist)
- If HSM is The OC (ABC's two-hour special "Drama High: The Making of a High School Musical" would be "Laguna Beach." Also Gossip Girl actor Connor Paolo, who plays an out teen on the show, recently declined an offer to become a series regular) (Variety) (Entertainment Weekly)
- More bans on ads (this time it's Chicago Transit Authority versus violent video games. After "Grand Theft Auto IV" sparked controversy with the media linking ads to a rise in crime, the board issued a flat-out ban on advertising for violent games. Plus a response to the NIH-sponsored study on fast food ads' effect on childhood obesity) (Ars Technica) (MediaPost, reg. required)
- Need a new look this holiday season? (Sephora lets girls give themselves virtual makeovers online) (press release)
- Star Trek: The Next Next Generation? (Director JJ Abrams seeks out a new generation of Trekkies with his upcoming prequel of the sci-fi franchise) (Gen Wired)
- Storytime 2.0 (Microsoft and Chorion team up to launch Time for a Story, a new online interactive storytelling application that lets parents and kids share stories from anywhere) (Cynopsis Kids)
- Gen Y goes home for the holidays (and seeks employment. But in these hard times there's a chance there won't be enough seasonal jobs to go around. Yikes) (press release)