DGamer (Disney's new site for Nintendo DS fans. Plus brands like IKEA and H&M integrating themselves into Sims 2. And yet another new tween/educational virtual world - Poptropica) (AdAge.com, reg. required) (Izzy Neis)
- Kidzbop goes on tour (again this summer) (Idolator)
- Even more on 'Gossip Girl' (and "the CW's tortured relationship with the web") (Alley Insider)
- Mountain Dew (produces another film, this time on street skating) (AdAge.com, reg. required)
- The high school sports social networking space (is now officially crowded with the addition of ESPN Rise) (Lost Remote)
- Social networking and suicide (what role, if any, are networks playing - thanks Derick! Plus Lori Drew indicted in the Megan Meyer case - thanks Eric!) (The Independent/Ireland) (WSJ blog)
- From MySpace to Hip Hop (more coverage of the recent Stanford forum)
- Why Twitter matters (according to BizWeek. I'm still not convinced it has been widely adopted by teens)
- More Burma activism (on Fanista)
- A [brief] history of the youth vote (interview with Michael Connery, whose book "chronicles how youth-led organizations are working behind the scenes, on a shoestring budget, to mobilize the 44 million Millennials.") (WireTap)
P.S. WTF? A principal bans dateless teens from prom. I brought two dates to my senior prom (both good friends) -- this is so lame! (EW's PopWatch)
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Comments
Regarding the Lori Drew indictment:
Congress didn't intend to criminalize posting false information at MySpace.
The prosecutors are pretending that a law against hacking applies to that.
The problem is that it is undemocratic for prosecutors to twist a law into a law they wish existed instead of following the intent of Congress.
Once prosecutors have claimed the power in Lori Drew's case to put someone in prison for violating a website's Terms of Service, they can put ANY OF US in prison because we posted something which violated some website's Terms of Service.
The purpose of a website Terms of Service is for the website owner to tell people things which might get visitors banned from the website. It is NOT supposed to be a list of federal crimes.
There are 14 year old girls who write at MySpace that they're 24 to avoid the attention of old men looking for a 14 year old. Those girls could go to prison if the theory behind the Lori Drew prosecution is upheld.
Posted by: Eric Jaffa | May 16, 2008 2:36 PM