By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer
NEW YORK Feb 27, 2007 (AP)— Today’s college students are more narcissistic and self-centered than their predecessors, according to a comprehensive new study by five psychologists who worry that the trend could be harmful to personal relationships and American society.
“We need to stop endlessly repeating ‘You’re special’ and having children […]

Elaine pointed out this short piece by journalist and cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling. Its evocatively disjointed, almost stream-of-conscious narrative imagines a teen world in the near future where electronic media and technology have taken the next step in saturating daily life. Imagine helicopter parents meet ubiquitous wireless/cellular connectivity, RFID tagging, and databases not […]

Coming to us via a newspaper blog (?), here’s a piece about how the Princeton Review rankings affected one high school student’s search.
The result is, as the Princeton Review says, “that which a college admissions viewbook by its very nature can never really achieve—an uncensored view of life at a particular college.” And they’re right. […]

College marketers are accustomed to putting their prospects under a microscope and taking them apart with market research. Imagine looking through the lens of the finely tuned instrument of demographic examination and seeing the eye of a blazing intellect staring right back at you?
Imagine a rising high school senior who not only researches colleges […]

It’s time once again for a “prospect market moment” in which we try and channel our inner millennial teenager. (Come on, stop screaming and sit down, it won’t be so bad.)
Okay, so I’ve got this really terrible great musical medley of internet memes. It’s precisely the sort of thing you’d find linked from […]

[…] The best way for me to innovate and enjoy what I do is to go native. Time to slip into the digital tribe and move among its peoples—virtual, 3D hands brushing in the darkness of social networked second lives, a million onymous youth dancing hyper-textualy into the night, the thrumming of drum and bass shared via mapped music genomes, and the twinkling glow of liquid-crystal-pixels offering up the entire geo-positioned world like an altar to a social, multi-cultural, semantic, hive-minded, Mercurial GOD.

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ - Blog of Danah Boyd. A PhD student studying privacy and the internet.
http://greenteaicecream.co.uk/ - “Social Value and the Social Web”
http://www.fastcompany.com/ - Interesting blog associated with Fast Company magazine.

I am taking a hiatus for the remainder of the summer to finish some hulking, be-fanged programming projects. Once those are complete, I am going to “take off the training wheels” on erelevant–redesign and revision it around a broader central theme. It will be less personal, less inflammatory and more topical and content-oriented. […]

When Time magazine named “You” as its person of the year in 2006, it was a ham-handed attempt to salute “user-generated content” as the driving force behind Web 2.0. Last year MySpace and YouTube commanded $580 million and $1.6 billion, respectively, because regular folks participate in the grand techno-democratic experiment, baring their souls to the […]