Set your DVRs... ("High School Confidential" premieres tonight on WE. Plus check out this interview with one of the students on ELLEgirl)
- 'One Life To Live' (does its version of the Jamie Lynne Spears story) (Reuters)
- Abercrombie's R-rated new underwear pitch (Bob Garfield: "You're 16, and you are therefore a walking-talking hormone engine, so why not visit our website, declare yourself at least 18 and watch our semi-soft-porn vignette? There are nipples involved!") (AdAge.com, reg. required)
- Pitchfork to launch its own version of MTV... (or at least the old MTV that was more about music, online)
- Inside Tony Hawk's empire (how he helped turn skateboarding into a multibillion-dollar industry) (USA Today)
- Haven't got time for the pain (one fifth of college students are abusing prescription drugs) (Reuters)
- The Tiger Woods of swimming? (Meet 13-year-old Lia Neal) (New York Times, reg. required)
- The 'Text Generation Gap' (and, more importantly, danah's take) (New York Times, reg. required)
- The new MySpace safety PSA (obligatory? And MyYearbook is now the number four social networking site. Full disclosure: MyYearbook is a Ypulse advertiser) (AdGabber) (Venture Beat)
- More teen multi-tasking research (new report from Grunwald) (Media Post, reg. required)
P.S. I'm going to type up my notes from the Steven Johnson/Henry Jenkins keynote tomorrow -- ran out of time today (it was way, way better than the Facebook keynote).
P.P.S. To the tipster who sent the NSBA report and BizWeek chart, thanks! I covered them awhile back here and here.
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Comments
I read about Lia Neal this weekend, and felt that the comparison to Tiger Woods was... unfortunate.
She's a dynamo. I want to *be* her. I want her to get to be anything she wants -- and not stuck with the Tiger Woods thing.
Posted by: TadMack | March 10, 2008 2:35 PM
Lia is AMAZING. I love you.... i love you... omg. hah.
check out annie zhu if you want to see her competition.... although zhu is breaststroke and apparently mean b/c i don't see any articles about HER and she made the trials too!!!
GO LIA * GO LIA * GO!
Posted by: CoolLeo | April 27, 2008 1:59 PM