Posts Tagged with ‘youth’

It's about that time again when the internet gets tangled up with tragedy and vindictive fingers are pointed hither and thither. This instance involves the tragic suicide of a teenager who was said to have been picked on and made fun of for his "emo" appearance on teenage social network Bebo .
Young Sam Leeson, only 13-years old, hung himself from the ceiling fan in his room after being mocked time and time again for his appearance. The [...]

Here’s something I didn’t expect to read this morning. Virtual worlds are big stuff.
The kid-oriented variety, anyhow. Indeed, The New York Times reported today that despite the less-than-stellar magnetism attributed to the teen- and adult-specific gamespace/marketplace called Second Life, the places on the Web reserved for the youngest of computer-savvy generations are quite the attraction these days. So much so that Disney and other companies are investing heavily in new environments built to attract children with a wide range [...]

Do you recall, several seasons back, MTV trying to break into the music retail online to combat (or follow, however you?d like to put it) iTunes and its steadily growing domination over the market? It made the attempt with Urge, a Windows Media Player-based outlet. As Viacom, the owner of MTV, discovered rather quickly, however, it never quite made much of a name for itself, despite a hefty publicity push. (It is now residing in merger with Real Networks' Rhapsody.)
Well, [...]