From WTNW: Green Houses are the New College Dorms

Lauren Silverman wants us to believe that “Green” Houses are the New College Dorms at our sister blog, “What’s The New What?”

“Green living” isn’t only popular at hippie colleges such as Oberlin. At the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where I go to school, some dorms and many cooperatives are taking a [...]

From WTNW: Psychics are the New Psychologists

Alyssa Wagner believes that Psychics are the New Psychologists at pur sister blog, “What’s The New What.”

Rabbit is a woman I saw when I was about to go abroad and had some serious reservations about the trip. As soon as I walked in the door, without my saying anything, she understood my fears and [...]

Question of the Week: Social Networking Time Suck RESPONSE

Seeing as I am a patron of both Myspace AND Facebook (shh, keep it on the DL, Myspace doesn’t know I’m with Facebook, Facebook doesn’t know I’m with Myspace…there could be some drama…) I spend quite a hefty amount of time wasting away on social networking websites. If you’d wanna whittle all the intricacies and [...]

Mid Day Media Roundup

Mississippi: A Great Young Voter State [Wire Tap]
Ally Klimkoski over at WireTap has a peek at the youth vote in tomorrow’s primary in Mississippi:
In 2006 there were an estimated 440,000 young people in Mississippi compared to the 1.6million people over 30. That’s 27.5 percent of the population, making young people particularly important to the state [...]

Youth Media Round-Up

What if the Millenials Lose?
[ Russell Morse, YO!]
I got a text message from a friend the morning after Tuesday’s primaries. The newly politicized young, Latino Obama supporter asked me, “Should I be concerned?”
To be honest, I didn’t know what to say to him. I have been swept up in the romance of the Obama campaign [...]

Media Roundup– Tomorrow Is Today Edition

In Five Years… Its All About Mobile
Anastasia Goodstein at ypulse has this breakdown from some talks at the “Youth Marketing Mega Event“that went down in Newport Beach, CA this week. Its this summary of a talk by social media researcher danah boyd:
What I love about danah is that she is a straight shooter. She [...]

Best of [Late] February

For the shortest month of the year February sure has been busy! Of course, we do get a whole extra day to process it, but still… so much has hapened, there’s no way you caught everything.
With that in mind, here’s a few things from the last couple of weeks you may have missed:
The Game is [...]

Free Culture

[Another one to keep you thinkin' by vacationing editor Noah Nelson.]
We believe that culture should be a two-way affair, about participation, not merely consumption. We will not be content to sit passively at the end of a one-way media tube. With the Internet and other advances, the technology exists for a new paradigm [...]

In Da House @ GDC

The Game Developers Conference descended upon San Francisco’s Moscone Center this week, and Youth Radio’s Quincy Mosby aka Quinn 2.0 took the opportunity of the world’s top video game creators being in his own back yard to tour the show floor.
Today we’ve got three cuts for you direct from GDC.
Intro/Developer’s Unleashed— in our first cut [...]

Format War Over. Long Live The Format War.

HD-DVD format developer Toshiba has abandoned its fight with rival Sony for mastery of the High-Def video market. Blu-Ray, the pricer format that was incorporated into Sony’s Playstation 3 game system, has won the battle for the next generation of video disks.
The format war is over! Let the format war begin!
Now that the physical media [...]