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Monday, February 12th, 2007From Princeton University Summer Journalism Program … a 10-day all-expenses-paid summer journalism program held in August at Princeton University for students from under resourced financial backgrounds. All application materials are available at www.princeton.edu/~sjp Past classes were taught by writers from The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Miami Herald, and The New Republic; toured The [...]
Old Skool Xcel 1996-2001
Thursday, February 1st, 2007Rollie’s comment inspired me to upload some of Generation Xcel’s archival photos. Many more to come.
The Blasphemy Challenge
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007Militant atheists challenge teens to deny the existence of God — and post their “blasphemy” on YouTube — and Nightline’s got the story covered. Nightline should have given Paul de Vries of NY Divinity School more time. He’s the real deal, thoughtful and well spoken. I would have loved to hear more of his rebuttal. [...]
A Girl Like Me
Monday, January 29th, 2007Well, uh, not exactly like me. But like Kiri Davis, a 17-year old New York City high school student whose short film has caused a sensation at film festivals around the country and reignited a debate about race. Fifty years after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case desegregated schools, Kiri decided to recreate [...]
What’s the strategy?
Thursday, January 25th, 2007Concerts of Prayer wants more. Katie Sweeting sent the following question in response to the prayer summit. My response is an incomplete thought. … We need your help to fill in the blanks. Please offer insights and feedback in the comments section. You did an absolutely wonderful job with the prayer time. It was informative [...]
The Christian Post reports on Mooks and Midriffs
Thursday, January 25th, 2007CP: You talk about media being vital in reaching our youth today. It is important to speak their language to be able to reach them. Yet, among all the material that is found, for instance on the internet, how do you get them to look at Christian material rather than all the things they normally [...]
Mooks, Midriffs, Myspace & More 2
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007Mooks, Midriffs, Myspace and More: Engaging a Plugged-in Generation Corporate profiteers produce and market media for a target youth audience they call mooks and midriffs — caricatures that exploit adolescent insecurities and hormones — a strategy described as “grabbing below the belt and reaching for their wallets.” The result: average teens now consume digital media [...]
Sign of the times
Thursday, January 11th, 2007My soon to be 9-year-old niece and 10-year-old nephew built their first websites today. Go, kids! But be safe. We’ll talk about that later. Love you! Uncle J
I fail to see the "bright side" of this
Thursday, January 4th, 2007“On the bright side, New York ranked slightly higher than the national average on the federal fourth-grade reading test, with 33 percent deemed proficient, compared with 29.8 percent nationally. On the eighth-grade math exam, 30.8 percent of New Yorkers passed, compared to 28.5 percent nationally.” Story. So 67% of New York City’s 4th graders aren’t [...]
“The Race to the Bottom”
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007Has the New York Times become prophetic in its treatment of youth issues? Beside’s the library article, the Times also exposes the lure of “web sites without rules” to young people in today’s issue. Popular Web sites like YouTube and MySpace have hired the equivalent of school hallway monitors to police what visitors to their [...]
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