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 [...]

The Internet In Yer Eyeball!

FPS gamers rejoice! Soon you too can be the proud owner of a HUD (head’s up display) ala the Master Chief.
Science has once again brought tomorrow to today with the development of a circuit laden contact lens that can be used to not only augment the reality we experience day to day, but aid the [...]

Admins Just Don’t Understand

via Digg
“I’m now a criminal for making proxies. For making a website. A legal website. On my private server. Outside of school. Great.” - Robert Afnani
This one’s hot off teh interwebs, doing blockbuster page hits over at Digg. High School Student Robert Afnani got slapped with a suspension threat and was accused of criminal activities [...]