Another Irregular News Roundup

Howard Gardner on "The End of Literacy? Don't Stop Reading."

NPR story on Asian stereotypes in the media (starting with Long Duck Dong in Sixteen Candles)

WWE and new marketing push for kids from Variety. There's more here at AdWeek.

Crunchyroll, a website targeted at Asian youth

New York Times article on the Facebook application, The Honesty Box

Interesting experiment in interactive fiction sponsored by Penguin UK

New York Times article on Nickelodeon's massive games launch

Keep up with teen news with this feed at alltop.

YALSA blog post about recent coverage of teen library services

ShiftedLibrarian post about gaming and libraries (see this earlier post as well)

New web-based comic strip application

Cool time-lapse video of the spread of Wal-Mart across the US

Tame the Web on the banning of social networking sites at the Mishawaka-Penn-Harris PL in Indiana

Provocative blog post on what constitutes "real" library work these days

Another News Roundup

A New York Times article on girls and the Internet (definitely check it out).

A fun compendium of social media in the 1990s vs. now.
Local article about third graders creating a class newspaper.
A New York Times story on the new manga Bible version. And here's some more about manga mashed up with the Bible.

A story from the Detroit Free Press about playing Guitar Hero in the library.

How to make your browser work like a teleprompter.

Blog post on Infomancy about gaming and libraries.

A New York Times article about product placement in books for young people.

FCC Kids' Zone.

Provocative new documentary film about high school in the US, China, and India.

--Carol

A Roundup of Items in the News

I'm still very much under the weather, but I wanted to post these links while they were still somewhat fresh...enjoy.

Playing to Type, an article on type design from the Atlantic Monthly.

Interview with Kathryn Montgomery, an expert on young people and online culture, on WILL's Media Matters. (I've not read her most recent book yet; it's on my list.)

Note from the Pew Internet Project on the increase in the use of video sharing websites.

A Non Sequitur comic appropriate for our visual literacy class.

Information from a study about teens and online news.

Terrific guide to Web 2.0 with lots of practical advice.

New PBS online environment for pre-schoolers.

New Cory Doctorow book for kids.

"D is for Digital" report on kids' educational toys.

A useful blog on using comics in schools and libraries.

The "intellectual" version of YouTube: Big Think.

Commonsense ideas about retaining more of what you read online.

A blog on young people's media use and production from around the world.

A video tribute to educational films.

Some good resources and pointers re: teens, games, and libraries.