The CW pulls 'Gossip Girl' from the web (OMFG. This seems like a bad move to me. It's never good to give people something for free online and then take it away. Teens know how to watch TV using Torrents, too, ya know) (L.A. Times, reg. required)
- Teens still love soaps (ratings up for CBS) (Media Life Magazine)
- Sarah Marshalls lash back (against Judd Apatow) (Fancast)
- MTV launches its 'Movie Spoofs' contest (again for the 2008 MTV Movie Awards)
- Bebo announces its 'Gap Year' winners (including one from Chicago who will join the globe trotting twentysomethings for this online reality series)
- 'Beyond the Rave,' ctd. (danah boyd commented yesterday that the series is vampire/horror and asked, "if you find out why the age marking, I'd love to know." I asked MySpace and got this response: "MySpace has strict policies in place to ensure that younger users cannot view mature material on the site. Due to content that is designed for mature audiences in MySpaceTV's new Beyond the Rave series, MySpace has implemented specific safety precautions so that the delivery of the content is limited to mature audiences." My cynical side, says it's really to make it even MORE appealing.)
- MySpace music will save the music biz (says Chris DeWolfe. Plus good times for music blogs. And..Facebook fatigue, what fatigue?) (Wired) (AdAge.com, reg. required) (Alley Insider)
- Rock The Vote & Wiretap (looking for youth reporters to cover the election...Plus the United Nations Foundation and Better World Foundation running a video contest asking youth to advise the new president on what he OR she should do on their first day at work. And download this compilation of Latino artists from iTunes for $3.99 to benefit Vote Latino)
- Eating disorders (can be contagious. According to this study...) (Reuters)
- Alicia Keys (in WeeWorld! Plus loads of brands lining up for WeeWorld's Prom -- you know your WeeMe needs whiter teeth, right?)
- Playboy snowboards (I wonder what female boarders will think of these...) (Jossip)
- AOL to launch a site for young women (so...what happens to Yahoo! Shine if the two were to merge?) (MediaPost, reg. required)
- The 'New China' (on Current.com - thanks Andrea!. Plus another vid on "Young China") (BrandNoise)
- Want you to want me (not the Cheap Trick song, but a very cool data visualization of what people are saying on online dating sites. Plus SubwayCrush - "missed connections" on the NYC subway system) (danah boyd) (SubwayCrush via Fimoculous)
P.S. Happy Passover to all of you in "the tribe" and anyone else who likes this holiday!
Posted by anastasia
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Comments
Re: Playboy snowboards.
Considering it's a mens specific park board I highly doubt you'll find many female riders on these. Burton cuts similar decks for womens.
Actually this is the second team up with playboy. They stamped the Playboy bunny on a Burton deck several years back to commemorate the magazines anniversary.
It's kind of sad to see a company that pushed snowboarding to such heights through innovation, R&D and support from within stoop to the low hanging fruit of these graphics. On one hand it's funny in a low brow humor sort of way bringing out classic pin up girls. But, on the other hand it's an obvious cry for "somebody, please check out how awesome I am. I have a half naked girl on my snowboard." These kooks need to not buy this stuff. They need to let their riding do the talking for them.
Posted by: jb | April 20, 2008 9:57 PM
Hey jb. Thanks for the comment -- very insightful. I didn't think they made these for women, too, but was wondering what the women boarders would think of guys who rode them.
Posted by: anastasia | April 20, 2008 10:07 PM