Gossip Girl stars Blake Lively and Penn Badgley are featured in a new Public Service Announcement (PSA), Partnership for a McCain-Free White House, encouraging teens to talk to their parents about the risks of voting McCain.
The PSA, paid for by Move.org, is a parody of PSA's encouraging parents to have the "birds and bees" talk with their kids. Pretty clever campaign and sure to get youth talking about politics with their parents.
Thanks to Anastasia over at YPulse.com for the scoop.
TweetStats, created by @dacort, is a new web application that provides you with your Twitter stats including, your tweet time line, your daily tweet aggregate (daily, weekly, monthly), your @'s percentages, as well as your most used Twitter interface.
You can also check out your tweet cloud to see a visual representation of the topics you tweet about most.
Back in the 1970s, the Boomer's went wild for their mood rings. Now their spawn, those totally wired Gen Y kids, are going wild for their version of the mood ring--Emoodicon.
This is a nifty way for the lol, omg, kthksbye, twitter, texting, blogging, loving kids to share their emotional state when they are away from the computer. You know. Outside.
Anyhoo. Still wondering what this Emoodicon ring thing is all about? You can watch the video, or you can just get the scoop here:
"They’re smileys for the real world. They tell the world what’s on your mind.
If you don’t know, I’m not going to tell you,” is a phrase you’ll
never utter again. If your boyfriend or girlfriend or best friend or
roommate or evil arch nemesis has eyes, they’ll know. (If they don’t
have eyes, no ring will help you. Sorry.)
Emoodicons are completely customizable. They’re cool, they’re fun,
and they won’t break or turn your finger green. Isn’t that a nice
change?"
It's also an interesting social commentary, showing the depth of the love affair that kids today have with technology. Using symbols from the keyboard and online world to communicate their true feelings.
Have you heard about the Moo-Art Project? It's a collaborative (global) web-based art installation. I think. Actually, it's hard to figure out exactly what or who is behind this project. As best I can tell it's not affiliated with the fine folks over at Moo. But then I might be wrong. Don't hold me to it.
Sidebar: If you are a member of Flickr or Vox and haven't checked out Moo Cards, you're missing out. Go. Now! Well. After you finish reading this post will be fine. Thank you.
So back to the Moo-Art Project. I don't know what the heck it is, but i'm intrigued. So I plopped down my 10€ (approx $13 USD) and I'm now the proud owner of piece 37. I don't know what that means either. Sorry.
But like I said, I'm intrigued. I'll keep you posted when (or if) I figure it all out.
Daily Show with John Stewart reporter Demetri Martin
takes a light hearted, yet spot on, look at the growing influence of
MySpace, Facebook, and other social networking sites in teen life.
At
the core of Demetri's humor is an important point: "If you want to
communicate with the youth, you've got to get into social networking."
