KOL is back (with partners like the tween girl avatar site Girlsense and National Geographic Kids. Plus Disney launches Disney Online Studios to produce more games/virtual worlds. And Kidzui -- a new "walled garden" approach for kids) (Forbes)

- Kids can now workout with Wii (Nintendo formalizes the Wii as a workout tool with the new Wii Fit) (USA Today)

- Retouching kids' school photos (disconcerting trend) (Newsweek)

- YouIntern (kind of like a RateMyTeachers for internships or really more reminiscent of The Vault)

- 18in08 on CSPAN (Ypulse College Mashup speaker David Burstein interviewed on the youth vote. Plus Obamaeton - supporters create a Reggaeton Obama song/video)

- Bmore youth tabloid (a new daily launched by the Baltimore Sun called "b" will also have a website called bthesite....Sounds like they should read this article on what newspapers can learn from Skyrock) (San Antonio Business Journal)

- The ACLU (defending our right to free speech, even if it's speech some disagree with - they've taken on the case of a high school student who wanted to wear her anti-gay T) (The Bloomington Pantagraph)

- First project for the new Brooklyn high school (for advertising/marketing...have the kids redesign the website.)

- Teens will be teens (Valleywag on how teens are using Gaia's VJ feature to collectively watch porn)

- Risky wrestling (teens who watch wrestling take more health risks...kind of like teens who watch MTV's Jackass....) (Reuters)

- My So-Called 'quarterlife' (Marshall Herskovitz writes about how the series came about...and is interviewed by NewTeeVee - Sidenote: I just rewatched My So-Called Life after watching Freaks & Geeks, and have to say, way more into Freaks & Geeks. The parents on MSCL really bug me)

- More Smurfy goodness (NPR on the resurrection of the Smurfs)

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