My next DVD purchase ("Square Pegs"!) (Entertainment Weekly)

- UK drama "Skins" goes mobile (on a mobile social network called WeGlu. Plus social networking is eating up UK teens' homework time) (Guardian)

- Utility first (when it comes to teens and cell phones) (TCM.net)

- Younger online TV viewers... (more favorable to ads that appear next to their favorite shows online) (Media Post, reg. required)

- Teen news feeds aggregated! (Ypulse pal Guy Kawasaki has launched a Teen news aggregator as part of his collection of Alltop sites)

- Meet The Jellybeats ("The JellyBeats are a collection of jellyfish, each one representing a different musical genre. They dance, talk and swim in the style of their musical preference." The characters are geared to 14-18 year olds and will be launching on Bebo soon)

- Zoning the internet (for any of you wonky types who are into regulation stuff - it's very dense)

- Anti-Abercrombie campaign (opposing the naming of a Children's Hospital wing after the steamy teen retailer in exchange for a big donation) (New York Times, reg. required)

- Self harm... (in the LGBT youth community. Plus Matthew Shepard's mom still working on behalf of gay youth) (Pink News) (USA Today)

- Holy crap (one in four teen girls has an STD) (Huffington Post)

- '2 Million Minutes' (cool looking doc on high school students in India, China and the U.S. Plus more corporate creep into schools as companies clamor to sponsor curriculum) (WSJ via Vanessa Van Petten)

- It's a Hard Knox Life (P&G's Dave Knox launches a blog and shares his youth marketing preso)

P.S. Speaking to parents at Palo Alto High tonight at around 7:30 p.m. if anyone wants to say hello. Also, my Opryland reference yesterday -- Opryland was torn down and replaced by a giant mall called Opry Mills -- it was owned by the Simon Corp., which used to be an investor in Mall of America. Sorry to be obtuse!

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