Ypulse Essentials: YouthRoots, 'About A Girl,' Camp Thomas Friedman
Posted by anastasia on 08-15-2007
'Superbad' star Michael Cera [far right] ("has joined 'Youth in Revolt,' an adaptation of a novel that garnered a cult following throughout the world"…and, I'm a big Judd Apatow fan, so I'm very excited to see "Superbad.") (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
- Mixed tapes go mobile ("DJ Envy is set to distribute 'mixtapes' downloadable to mobile devices for a fee") (MediaPost, reg. required)
- Doppelganger expands with Vside (Bigger! Better! Plus Girlsense launches a fashion slide show widget. And The MacArthur Foundation explores the internet as a "third space" to hang out) (Izzy Neis)
- YouthRoots (a new interfaith community for teens - cool!)
- The new 'Laguna Beach' debuts tonight (aka "Newport Harbor." Plus The N to air "About a Girl," its first scripted comedy, this fall. And CNN will air "Children of the Storm," a post-Katrina doc told from the perspective of teens ) (Reality Blurred) (TV Newser)
- Technology keeping college students too connected (to hometown friends, boyfriends, etc…) (Washington Post, reg. required)
- Underage (is all the rage in the UK with a successful teen music fest and more clubs offering all ages shows/nights) (TIME.com)
- Forget 'Idol' camp (there's Thomas Friedman camp for teens!) (The Greensboro News-Record)
- Hearst's UK Jellyfish (for 18-25 year olds has gone belly up) (Paid Content)
- Teens still doodle in notebooks (one of the more interesting lines in this back-to-school survey from Staples)
August 18th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
Thomas Friedman, praised the Iraq War by saying:
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http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/tripping-on-crazy-by-digby-atrios-has.html
What they needed to see was American boys and girls going house to house, from Basra to Baghdad, um and basically saying, "Which part of this sentence don't you understand?"
You don't think, you know, we care about our open society, you think this bubble fantasy, we're just gonna to let it grow?
Well, Suck. On. This.
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He doesn't deserve a summer camp dedicated to him.
He doesn't deserve a NY Times column, either.