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Amy Poehler (talks about "Smart Girls" with HuffPo's Marianne Schnall) (The Huffington Post)
- Winehouse 101? (the troubled pop star will be used by a university class in the UK as an example of th...

Do you remember the controversy a while back when British shopkeepers started using a "teen repellent" to deter loiterers with an unbearable, piercing sound audible only to those under the age of 2...

I know Banned Books Week officially took place way back in September, but over the past few days there's been a couple of literary showdowns over in Iowa and it seemed like it might be time for a r...

Kiwibox Teen Network (goes live today for advertisers. Also another niche social networking site may go the way of the dodo. TechCrunch reported yesterday that Sneakerplay, the site for sneakerhead...

Yesterday I was browsing my RSS feeds when this unsettling and somewhat unbelievable story caught my eye (Thanks Derek!):
The Local, an English language news site based in Sweden, reports that a 15...

Last Thursday I received the following text message: "Happy Thnxsgvng. I didnt hear yr call. call me when u can. luv, dad" Ohh Dad. Obviously, texting isn't his first language. But, it's the though...

Flip.com flops (Conde Nast's social networking site for teen girls sent out a notice today informing users that the site will be closing on December 16. Notably, they provided instructions for how ...

If you're in the web/media space, you've probably seen this story by now where media critic Michael Wolff tells BusinessWeek columnist Jon Fine:
"If you're on MySpace now, you're a (expletive) cret...

Today in my inbox I received an email promoting a new online newspaper site for tweens called "The TweenTribune." It's basically a big link aggregator where you can comment on news stories allegedl...

In yesterday's Essentials we posted a link to an AP article on a recent survey conducted among high school students by The Josephson Institute Center for Youth Ethics. Findings suggest that some st...