'Edutainment' (like Whyville, Kidscom.com [tough URL] offers a virtual world, "safe social networking," and casual games with an emphasis on learning)

- The 'anti-corporate' market (really interesting article on Reason about how indie culture inadvertently sells itself)

- UGC on the rise ("Between 46 percent and 83 percent of the online populations of France, The United States and the United Kingdom use user- generated media at least monthly." Which is why we're seeing more contests like yesterday's mention of Friendly's, this from the Jewelry Consumer Opinion Council, and this from Axe [blech] and this from HP) (Web Pro News) (Media Post, reg. required)

- Tweens alone... (can't save Broadway) (New York Times, reg. required)

- Family meals (may delay teen alcohol abuse)

- Young people delay getting married even longer than you thought ("just 23.5% of men and 31.5% of women ages 20-29 were married in 2006" Wow. Thanks Rachel!) (USA Today)

- Finally (MySpace launches new features. And look for more MMO social networks about games like WOW from companies like AOL) (Giga Om)

- Read a banned book! ('cuz it's "Banned Book Week" plus 31 YA authors in 31 days in October)

- 'All Jacked Up' (Coming soon: "Teen docu-dram-edy that explores the typical eating habits of teenagers and exposes the truth about “the system” that preys on their naiveté, keeping them on course for a dismal future if they don’t rise above it all")

- Kinda like 'Strangers With Candy' (yet even stranger...) (via Fishbowl New York)

- It's baack (teaser for "Friday Night Lights." Yay!)

P.S. Just a reminder that I am a "road warrior," living out of hotels, on the Totally Wired Parent/Educator Tour sponsored by Beinggirl.com through October 28.

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