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Today we bring you our weekly sampler of cool youth media and marketing gigs. If your company has an open position in the youth media or marketing space, we encourage you to join the Ypulse LinkedIn group, if you haven’t yet, and post there for... Read the rest of this post

Today we bring you another installment of Youth Media Movers and Shakers. We’ve culled through industry publications looking for the recent executive placements we think you should know about. If you have executive news that you want us to... Read the rest of this post

Today we bring you another installment of Youth Media Movers and Shakers. We’ve culled through industry publications looking for the recent executive placements we think you should know about. If you have executive news that you want us to... Read the rest of this post

Today we bring you another installment of Youth Media Movers and Shakers. We’ve culled through industry publications looking for the recent executive placements we think you should know about. If you have executive news that you want us to... Read the rest of this post

Today we bring you another installment of Youth Media Movers and Shakers. We’ve culled through industry publications looking for the recent executive placements we think you should know about. If you have executive news that you want us to... Read the rest of this post

Today we bring you our weekly sampler of the cool youth media and marketing gigs. If your company has an open position in the youth media or marketing space, we encourage you to join the Ypulse LinkedIn group, if you haven’t yet, and post there... Read the rest of this post

Today we bring you our weekly sampler of the cool youth media and marketing gigs you can expect to find on our Ypulse Jobs Board. If your company has an open position in the youth media or marketing space, we encourage you to post there. Post a... Read the rest of this post

Today we bring you our weekly sampler of the cool youth media and marketing gigs you can expect to find on our Ypulse Jobs Board. If your company has an open position in the youth media or marketing space, we encourage you to post there. Post a job... Read the rest of this post

Like my former colleagues at Current TV, I was overjoyed at the news that Laura Ling and Euna Lee would be returning home yesterday. I loved watching everyone express their happiness in my Facebook newsfeed. My personal feelings about Laura (who I... Read the rest of this post

Borders Ink (stores carve out a new teen department that will stock graphic novels, fantasy and young-adult titles. Plus PW on the pros and cons of YA titles crossing channels) (WSJ) - 'Do elite colleges produce the best-paid grads?' (New York... Read the rest of this post

Disney 'Netpal' (as other toy companies focus on more affordable items, Disney debuts its first laptop for kids. Still, some say it's smart move) (Reuters) (everythingPR) - Iranian youth and Twitter (a closer look at how young activists are using... Read the rest of this post

I feel like I need to begin this post with a disclaimer — I didn't watch yesterday's premiere of "It's On With Alexa Chung" though I did go to the site and watch a highlight. I also read Sunday's preview in the New York Times, reg. required,... Read the rest of this post

'Zeke and Luther' on Disney XD (Disney's latest play for the boys, the live-action adventures of two aspiring pro skaters, debuted this weekend. Plus, Cartoon Network's risky move away from animation. And, prepare your tweens, "Hannah Montana" is... Read the rest of this post

Name that tune (Guitar Hero creator Activision challenges players to an online scavenger hunt to identify all 85 bands represented on the fifth installment game. Plus, the "Where The Wild Things Are" video game seeks another publisher) (MediaPost,... Read the rest of this post

7 days left until the Ypulse Youth Marketing Mashup East! We just added a new exhibitor: The Passion Group. And heads up: Virgin Mobile will be making a very big press announcement…. I'll have a pie chart with that pie (The Economist uses... Read the rest of this post

Ypulse readers: We just confirmed my friend Gary Rudman, a former TRU (Teen Research Unlimited) veteran and current independent teen marketing expert, to lead our hour-long "Youth Marketing Boot Camp" intro session at the Ypulse Youth... Read the rest of this post

Current TV has a segment called “Target Women” that I absolutely love.

In this episode, Sarah Haskins, who is frikking hilarious, introduces us to the helpful and empowering phenomenon known as Wedding Television.

She gently mocks shows like Bridezilla, Rich bride Poor bride, Platinum brides, and other affronts to sanity.

As you know, marriage is only for skinny rich people. At one point, Sarah appears in bike shorts and a sports bra, comparing her normal body to the “horrible fat future” picture used to scare a woman into bridal fitness on a show called “Bulging Brides”.

This video made me feel so much better about my lazais faire approach to wedding planning. See ya in Detroit in December, friends.

I’ll be the one wearing some sort of dress.

Erica said, on 9/12/2008 10:11:00 AM

I have a life-threatening peanut allergy. My lungs fill up and my throat closes and WOW are nuts a bad thing. Which is why I want these vinyl “No Peanuts” stickers by Jeeto.

Chuck and I have been trying to translate the word “peanut” into 30 languages whenever we go to a restaurant. It would be nice to have a visual aid.

When I was a kid, nobody had heard of “allergies”, so I didn’t get a lot of cred when I pouted and refused to eat my snickerdoodle. My folks fought for me when they could, but there were plenty of incidents. There was the Evil Girl Scout Leader with the PBJ, the home economics class with the peanut brittle, my forgetful grandma and the cracker jacks.

Having it in writing might help a kid stick up for herself.

So, yay to Jeeto and a generation of militant parents! Yay for continued access to oxygen!

Erica said, on 10/1/2008 1:27:00 AM

In which I write about my evening as though it appeared in a social column:

Librarians-turned-Software-Goons Sarah Dilling and Erica Olsen spent the evening discussing religion, the raising of rhetorically skilled children, and workplace mentoring this evening over mojitos at local bistro Luna Park. Rumor has it that the field of software development pays more than *twice* that of Librarianship, and offers larger amounts of free food. Where will this double dose of database-discussing debutantes appear next?