Hip hop's cool factor just plummeted (after an older college basketball coach nailed the Soulja Boy dance on camera - yikes) (Salon.com, day pass or subscription required)

- Cyber sex 2.0 (teens are using their cell phones for flirty texting and "cellular" sex...this issue made national news when an "American Idol" contestant was arrested for texting sexually explicit messages to a 12-year-old) (CBS)

- Studying is awkward, dates are awkward, eating is awkward. (It seems that life, in general, is an "awkward" experience. I hear the word "awkward" on my campus more than 30 times a day. Easily.) (Washington Post, reg. required)

- Finish in four (the economy is forcing students to get through college more quickly) (Iconoculture)

- Google moves in on MySpace's territory (launching their own social network called "Friend Connect" that enables any website to become a social site of sorts) (Mashable) (Washington Post, reg. required)

- Survey shows bespectacled kids look smarter than their 20/20 classmates (no need to study for exams -- just get new glasses!) (Science Daily)

- HBO makes its debut on iTunes (I guarantee you teen girls will be downloading "Sex and the City" on their computers) (CNET)

- Popsauce (a new ad network for video sites targeting 18-34s) (Media Post, reg. required)

- MTV Exit (and other examples of companies associating their brands with good causes. Plus Ypulse Mashup speaker Kark Carter on making "green" the new black, i.e. reaching people of color with a green message) (AdWeek) (AdAge.com, reg. required)

- The psychology behind social networking (a discussion of the psychological aspects of MySpace and Facebook - thanks Derek!) (KQED Forum)

- Wii Ware (download games directly for your Wii)

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