Safety driving tween mobile adoption (according to Jupiter Research - let the tethering begin [early]!) (WebProNews)
- Decoding the Amp'd bankruptcy (BizWeek has a pretty good analysis of what it all means for the MVNO [Mobile Virtual Network Operator] market)
- Pixelodeon! (if you're in L.A. check out this online video fest this weekend)
- 'Virtual Rush' (ABCFamily's new collegiate show called "Greek" lets you "rush" fraternities and sororities and be eligible to win a walk on role... "it's a first real user-generated effort for Disney" - thanks Amy!)
- South Korea embraces breakdancing (They may be a little late to the party but South Korea's b-boys are one of its hottest cultural exports according to this story) (AP via Yahoo! News)
- Hip hop hearts chess (great story about the other "game" hip hop artists love. Plus now anyone can learn to spin at DJ school) (SFGate) (New York Times, reg. required)
- Illegal downloading (is the music industry's fault...according to this Consumer Affairs piece)
- Nick Hotels (Influx says: "Sounds like either heaven or hell, depending on which way you see the world.")
- Reuters discovers virtual worlds (not much new here...)
- The Washington Post goes shopping with teens! (and finds girls drooling over higher priced brands but waiting for clearance sales and boys zeroing in on what they want and getting out quick. Plus there's video!) (reg. required)
- Teen suicide (is linked to dating violence and sexual assault. Not surprising. Just sad.)
- T-shirts sending out an SMS ("Reactee has announced the launch of a line of interactive t-shirts that combine fashion, SMS and activism through 'shirts that text back.'" Love this.) (Tech Crunch)
P.S. For newsletter readers who may not have stopped by the site yesterday, check out my post on "The Porn Effect" over at HuffPo and my article about stranger danger over at MediaShift.
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Comments
that illegal downloading article is, like, the WORST. several arguments against it:
1. when music was not available on the internet, you didn't just walk into stores and take it. there's a lot of groceries i want, but i don't just walk out of the store with my arms full of tombstone pizzas.
2. music is not "information," it's a service. you pay for services. you pay for newspapers, for phone service, for internet, for cable. if you want something specialized, you pay for it. otherwise, you have the radio and the library.
3. all music labels are not like... the walmart of music, and all artists do not make $.10 from every record they sell. most indie labels work with artists, on a shoestring budget, and give them a couple of bucks a record, at least, and when you're an indie artist, all those downloads add up to paying your rent, buying a new guitar to replace the one that broke, only having to tour 9 mos out of the year instead of 11. and trust me, at indie labels, we're not rolling in money. it's not about whether we're going to take the 30th floor of the highrise instead of the 25th for our corporate offices. it's about whether we can afford to have insurance. period.
there's a bunch more stuff i could say about this article. it goes on and on.
Posted by: marah | June 5, 2007 2:57 PM